You can refresh
the prunes
in brandy
but the wrinkles still show
Grow plums
Walk proud and open
to notice the inchworm
and cloud shapes forming
light in your heart
Sum the total self
2 weeks ago
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
Gogyohka 10.30.09
I pretend
it doesn't matter
but I worry
about money
every day
The most profound person
doesn't ask
What is the meaning of life
but creates their meanings
and lives with them
"I got some change the other day
Six dollars sixty six cents."
The prophet on the subway
isn't moving to the next car
Her legs shift weight
Come on down to where I live
big brother, big sister
Talking about bright days
and brighter dawns
Just come on down
when you sit down
for the game
first ask
do I want to play
or do I want to win?
it doesn't matter
but I worry
about money
every day
The most profound person
doesn't ask
What is the meaning of life
but creates their meanings
and lives with them
"I got some change the other day
Six dollars sixty six cents."
The prophet on the subway
isn't moving to the next car
Her legs shift weight
Come on down to where I live
big brother, big sister
Talking about bright days
and brighter dawns
Just come on down
when you sit down
for the game
first ask
do I want to play
or do I want to win?
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Gogyohka 10.29.09
Booming from buildings
Booming from their lawns
Booming into the TV
afraid of silence
these babies getting old
300 million
wasting away
with "I do what I want"
the new diapers alone
enough to suffocate the rest
mushrooms wait
for the right conditions
to appear
but mushrooms
are always there
To all the teenagers:
Normal people
are people
you don't know
very well
Run from the sun
All you'll see
stretched out and lengthening
a shadow before you
blindness behind
Couple Revisions, with thanks to Peter the Fungus:
Moon is low
the windows open
Air wet and cold
blowing over my legs
Billie's still there singing
And this one which was, ga-duh, 6 lines the first time around:
Not even off the plane
Already know I'm back
"Saw them in 57--maybe 58?--with Mantle"
"I was a Dodgers fan, a /Brooklyn/ Dodgers fan"
"So, Joe, you ever been to Yankee Stadium?"
Lines are still kinda long at the end there--may need further attention...
Booming from their lawns
Booming into the TV
afraid of silence
these babies getting old
300 million
wasting away
with "I do what I want"
the new diapers alone
enough to suffocate the rest
mushrooms wait
for the right conditions
to appear
but mushrooms
are always there
To all the teenagers:
Normal people
are people
you don't know
very well
Run from the sun
All you'll see
stretched out and lengthening
a shadow before you
blindness behind
Couple Revisions, with thanks to Peter the Fungus:
Moon is low
the windows open
Air wet and cold
blowing over my legs
Billie's still there singing
And this one which was, ga-duh, 6 lines the first time around:
Not even off the plane
Already know I'm back
"Saw them in 57--maybe 58?--with Mantle"
"I was a Dodgers fan, a /Brooklyn/ Dodgers fan"
"So, Joe, you ever been to Yankee Stadium?"
Lines are still kinda long at the end there--may need further attention...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Gogyohka 10.28.09
"Ma'am?" She looks up
from a plastic bag tent city
"You forgot your cucumber."
"Oh--thanks!" Stands from the stroller
now empty. "Celeste...Celeste!"
from a plastic bag tent city
"You forgot your cucumber."
"Oh--thanks!" Stands from the stroller
now empty. "Celeste...Celeste!"
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Gogyohka 10.27.09
can't tell
if the changing oaks
are camouflaging
the buildings
or the other way around
the web of humanity
extending out
and linking us
can also reach back
and choke
if the changing oaks
are camouflaging
the buildings
or the other way around
the web of humanity
extending out
and linking us
can also reach back
and choke
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