a fine mess
daniel and his story At a quarter past five he found the note wedged inside the medicine cabinet between the Vicks Vapor Rub and Pepto Bismol. The black ink was shifting in the grayish light. Like crawling insects.daniel and his story
Mom and Dad - I’m leaving the state for a month or two. I didn’t want to tell you because I didn’t want you to stop me. If I’m not back home by July 1st be worried. But I&
atrocityseven times seven times seven is: you. Thrice i said BLACKJACK & you said, This Is Not A Drill. your gun warm in my hands.atrocity
In the heart of us there is a bird; it sings the songs of war.
(in the heart of every man there is a bird.)
If I opened your heart
like the petals of a flower on a spring morning would I find the truth of: children on heroin. concentration camps. gunfire outside your window. war war war war rape war. (all of the above)?
Y
Horatio's American DreamsPart I.Horatio's American Dreams
I walk past latter-day messiahs who have the tact to crucify themselves before the rest of the world, the pride to beg for humanity, the humility to shit and piss and rave, and the gall to ask for your spare change.
There are broken flowerpots on the street- scattered, spewing fertilizer that will help retake the land one blade at a time, inch by inch, parking lot by sullen parking lot; or maybe as a bomb- send us nature in the mail by overnight express.
Petals gather in frightened clumps out by the ashes of the woodshe
blind leap.
Neutral
--
you make me want to dance
a storm of appreciation
your ink splashes and crawls,
a wriggling living line on the page
i’m full of awe
imissyou.
end.
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[Die young and save yourself.]
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