Another summer left us rich in bikinis
And rich in friendship. My friends
Let us toast the acres of air that separate us,
The forests of people who come between.
Indeed, we share many of the same habits:
Staring intently, listening closely,
Hiding behind curtains, even on Sunday.
Je ne puis demeurer loin de toi plus longtemps.
But I can! It's surprising how close
Long-range photography can bring us. I know
Your begonias are growing nicely,
And we're on opposite sides of the park!
Some day, I want to be inside the radius
Of the perfumes you apply so liberally.
Some day, we'll think of the whales,
Probably almost at the same time.
You could say we're inching closer
To intimacy. The slow creep where
Neither of us occupy the moment,
Yet the moment, like here, wants to be there.
Monday, September 29, 2014
The Boat, Drunk (in progress)
As I traveled down impassible Rivers,
I no longer felt the pull of the guides:
Loud Redskins had emptied their quivers,
And nailed to dyed posts their bare hides.As I went down impassible Rivers,
I no more felt the pull of the guides:
Howling Braves had emptied their quivers,
And then nailed to bright posts their bare hides.
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Frack This
When I pooped Detroit, I was only kidding.
The quagmires of capital have soaked the galoshes
Of future gardeners (rat poison!), I mean goddesses
Splattered with snatch-burning honey. AOI
The furnaces in your eyes remind you of yourself—
How saintly—before you were born, raging in vitro
Like violent oyster sewage as delicious
As turnips in a musical. Ovarian meat-grinder!
I won’t harvest you, fat morass, without a note
From your physician.
Please inspect the timbers
Of all strings and woodwinds prior to fellatio.
Must you refer to me as “my cabbage”?
Every third line I vomit in the solarium.
These marble stairs warbling since 1066 sag
Like the tits of an old dog, thousands of them
Arranged in a cloistered spiral ascending
To a locus amoeba, all fish in the trees, of course,
Because it’s spring and I’m in love with a shoulder blade.
Thibaut, send one down to the princess of hell.
I did some work there but the fornicators kicked me out.
Sunday, September 7, 2014
If Death Came in the Alps
If death came in the Alps I wouldn’t complain
Inter me on the silver road
The parking is
free
And from beneath a slab of glass I’ll watch
Snowy atoms of fire descend all day
And every evening the dark ascent
of night
There I will dream of quietness
And
I will drift alone into the wilderness
The tyranny of the
human face will lift like a fog
No more listening to sloppy talk
And what must still be done will
never come
When I leave it all behind
Like a bird flying
straight into the sun
The lunatics were asking about you
They wished you were still here
They wished you were still here
The
silence of infinite space was my reply
Some things are deeper than snow
Although
right now I can’t think of any
The inviolable blue of my hands and face
Will be for distant stars to contemplate
And I will coolly gaze on passers-by
Marching into the flames of history
The inviolable blue of my hands and face
Will be for distant stars to contemplate
And I will coolly gaze on passers-by
Marching into the flames of history
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