At all costs preserve mystery until legend.
Then, and only then,
receive sustenance;
avoid sordid sexual bargaining;
be belligerent;
and never be convenient.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
A State Street, Greene Street, Bank Street Walk
these are American bars
water-sealed tung and groove soft pine flooring
cherry and walnut
trimmed and raised and polished
to fit
sharp political elbows
menopausal breasts
calloused palms
dishwasher soap-etched glass
slides as steins
illicit melamine ashtrays
filled with chewed toothpicks
stiff paper made-in-china
japanese umbrellas
lime green and magenta plastic swords
track sheets, folded, scored
silver dust of faded scratch off dreams
look, here even the sun abandons
clouds hang without feature
dark frames to dark dreams
a day only the sky remembers
still life with bottles
abstract walk
over there Morocco meets the great white way
and Borgart stands silent watching Ireland
and there on Greene Street
Heroes left
the waving rainbow dissipated and
blew away to Bank Street
water-sealed tung and groove soft pine flooring
cherry and walnut
trimmed and raised and polished
to fit
sharp political elbows
menopausal breasts
calloused palms
dishwasher soap-etched glass
slides as steins
illicit melamine ashtrays
filled with chewed toothpicks
stiff paper made-in-china
japanese umbrellas
lime green and magenta plastic swords
track sheets, folded, scored
silver dust of faded scratch off dreams
look, here even the sun abandons
clouds hang without feature
dark frames to dark dreams
a day only the sky remembers
still life with bottles
abstract walk
over there Morocco meets the great white way
and Borgart stands silent watching Ireland
and there on Greene Street
Heroes left
the waving rainbow dissipated and
blew away to Bank Street
you offered to nestle with me
like spoons between sheets of secrecy
flesh scented
our cloak of hastily garbed chastity
"caring"
"comfort"
"friends"
cotton nothings on the loins of our thoughts
right calf crossing mine
fingers mesh
then drift
a tattoo of hesitation drumming awareness on flesh
the sun arises to shadow
we flight toward a limited horizon
two spoons
closed off then, by a brilliant billowing darkness
shut away
utilitarian in nature
like spoons between sheets of secrecy
flesh scented
our cloak of hastily garbed chastity
"caring"
"comfort"
"friends"
cotton nothings on the loins of our thoughts
right calf crossing mine
fingers mesh
then drift
a tattoo of hesitation drumming awareness on flesh
the sun arises to shadow
we flight toward a limited horizon
two spoons
closed off then, by a brilliant billowing darkness
shut away
utilitarian in nature
maybe i should just go to sleep
dreaming leads a body just past the farthest horizon
when i let go of any ambition, i fall into fate's arms
i fall into your arms
i am just a glass coffee table
pieces of wood and glass
with words written on me with a
magic marker
put your weeping glass upon my words at your peril
hours will slip by
before you notice you are awake
sleep
sleep the sleep of the disenchanted
and dream of the lucky and forlorn
when you are unconsious
you know in every nerve
you are in a warm bath
of your own drawing
the owner of this table
may be displeased
but oh well
it is fun to mark this up
to gamble on
will the words disappear with a wisk?
fun for you to read
what else would you be doing right now
dreaming leads a body just past the farthest horizon
when i let go of any ambition, i fall into fate's arms
i fall into your arms
i am just a glass coffee table
pieces of wood and glass
with words written on me with a
magic marker
put your weeping glass upon my words at your peril
hours will slip by
before you notice you are awake
sleep
sleep the sleep of the disenchanted
and dream of the lucky and forlorn
when you are unconsious
you know in every nerve
you are in a warm bath
of your own drawing
the owner of this table
may be displeased
but oh well
it is fun to mark this up
to gamble on
will the words disappear with a wisk?
fun for you to read
what else would you be doing right now
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