alcohol has made me soft, what i am – ulterior; clean but mawkish. let not thy judgment fall severely. the sober man, the responsible man knows too clearly how right he is, how objective his truth is & in the state i’m in i reckon. the poet beats the philosopher, til the latter submits that…
from Blank Notime Pre-Cortex Lands #2
3 ———————————————— A year I watched a woman disappear each week the light a little more unclear her eyes I saw a little more of Less each time; knew the husband-kind a stranger at her side, driving arm, the hand he put the ring upon her finger, with the coin to pay the tollbooth operator—which…
from Blank Notime Pre-Cortex Lands
2 ———————————————— tough & happy, crystal eyes ruled thirty years the public courts swooped across the competition ladder, lifted, in her power serve grunted out the backhand, the unflinching doubles net game hydraulic smooth pivot in her netball golfing well as men, driving Drinkers’ drinkers home in cold conditions as the Past dissolve, in the…
Mines of Reverie
a carting-horse. engraving minor morse from mines of reverie ____________________ I have little, for a man of 50 with his faculties intact, yet it is quite a lot. I leave the house unlocked and the heart— while opening smoothly like a red sunrise under clouds it closes pretty quick so watch your fingers climbing into…
blight
Margret’s long dead. This is what’s wrong with the world. I demand but know no heaven here can fix; that an ideal ultimately falls also. Who restores her to me? 14/04/20
trump 20/20
as president, trump can do what he likes. he can do nothing; incite violence. deflect blame. murder truth. liberate michigan, minnesota. one masked protester held a sign that said: covid19 is a lie. (dante is right to suggest that fraud is worse than physical violence. more profound)
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at the university lakes
i’m also a poet as well as the swine who wrote the shopping list (see above). i like to emulate the simplicity of it (the list). i thought to present ‘milk/bread/sugar/eggs’ as a poem but didn’t have the stomach for it, the confidence that i was saying something worthwhile. i turn my back to…
time around
time around with de Chirico round noon in those suburbs, even the main street you can stop at the curb, just hold yourself from stepping down to the road to cross over. in that split silence hear the clock of days, know yourself under its hands longer than afternoons. in the telltale winds that kick…
desk
i am empty. delicate. some user took a knife to me, in some bored or intolerable moment; the interlude between two zeros, a dense nothingness you can’t see thru or wonder at its obliquity, what it is – before the advent of internet. it’s too late, at any rate, to…
colony
men club together for protection. it’s physical, & also psychological. we’re forced together, caught in the swarm & build to be warm & sheltered. i can’t (example) avoid radio; classic hits, commercials; the flippant tone of djs amused by their own eloquence. i mean: do they breed them? because they come in 2…
Bruising Poundings
from Bruising Poundings 1 she always gets up early Leaving warm, her pillows (she always gets a pearly …) dressed … leaving warmer pillows dressed in feather, yearning more love than a spouse and children consume without a flower back or a foot rub. 2 Night dew crisping on windows the sky-citrus crimsons pink out yellow…