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oh,
to think you know something
to wake up wondering, wandering
to surrender to pleasure
to cut ties and climb trees
to call upon your gods
to pay rent and bills
to eat without chewing
to get to know broken glass
to skip town and never shake your shadow
to be an orphan to fragile forevers and naive nevers
to be a dumbass
to live without shelter
to panic in the streets of las vegas
to play musical couches in los angeles and new york city
to know you don't belong in minnesota
to rest your head in new jersey
to steal water and borrow oxygen and bum cigarettes
to search for something inside yourself
to catalog your soul's songs
to hold your fire
to sweat tomorrow
to sleep all day, yet dream all night
to wake up next to some one just as lost as you
to drink too much coffee too fast
to run with scissors
to walk with waffles
to realize what you were born into
to grow up in that which killed your parents
to laugh and laugh
and laugh
to mock a killingbird.
to think you know something
to wake up wondering, wandering
to surrender to pleasure
to cut ties and climb trees
to call upon your gods
to pay rent and bills
to eat without chewing
to get to know broken glass
to skip town and never shake your shadow
to be an orphan to fragile forevers and naive nevers
to be a dumbass
to live without shelter
to panic in the streets of las vegas
to play musical couches in los angeles and new york city
to know you don't belong in minnesota
to rest your head in new jersey
to steal water and borrow oxygen and bum cigarettes
to search for something inside yourself
to catalog your soul's songs
to hold your fire
to sweat tomorrow
to sleep all day, yet dream all night
to wake up next to some one just as lost as you
to drink too much coffee too fast
to run with scissors
to walk with waffles
to realize what you were born into
to grow up in that which killed your parents
to laugh and laugh
and laugh
to mock a killingbird.
Literature
the hipbone connects to europe
mesmerize:
crack my Pangaean bones,
memorize
the aesthetics of your atlas
my patella is Spain,
my radius is France,
my coccyx is Japan;
you've broken all 3
with one gemstone
my pelvis is an equator
separating you and me
and the imaginary heat
slipping through, since
i only get action during
a Tectonic disturbance
your sternum's plates
crashed into my ribs;
your transcontinental
tremors trembled like
broken Richter scales
(a magnitude of
negative infinity)
seismic vertigo
a seizure--
sees your
seas, your
open water&
underground
escape route
from myself//
because this}
cheap romance is
a natural disaster;
Literature
gtod 1
he walks out of the bathroom,
deadfaced & serious.
he huddles in close,
locks eyes, and declares
Razorblade Superman.
I laugh 'til I fall out of my chair.
---
she sits up;
suddenly,
triumphantly.
she exclaims
I just remembered -
I can see the future!
I am in love.
Literature
stop the clock
a sea of houses comes rolling in
rusty roofs bending
breaking, crashing
shingles popping like fireworks
(expressing their independence, they die)
while you and I
(nothing more than genetic flotsam, now)
turn our eyes from a shattered-glass snowfall
and dream of the winters of our youth
this will be the end of days
...
this will be clouds folding into the earth
thunderstorms growling from foxholes
rain tumbling from rivers
as a clumsy conflagration stumbles into our skin
stealing our silhouettes
painting our ghosts on walls
(oh, had only we learned such passive resistance)
as you and I
(only numbers and figures, we know)
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this is lovely.
you have a way with words.
you have a way with words.