2 More Things I Found While I Was Looking For Something Else

Venom is rarely/
Up to any good./
Even more rarely/
Is venom humourous./
Go ahead, try out/
Yr. venom jokes./
See if it kills ‘em/
In theory.
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I’ll say,
“A thing I wonder..”
But I know the truth,
“Is whether audio books
Are books at all. “
Isn’t it storytelling
Without the fire
To
Look…

3 Things I Found While I Was Looking For Something Else

Heaven-Sent & Nice Adolescent Advice
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We all recall how dreamy faraway
Train whistles calling sounded
In bed as kids,
So very near to dreamy nearby
Dreams.
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Resist running away, way too far away from home.
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MATHERMAL
.
left foot
.
outside a silk sheet
a half hidden balance
is at play tonight
.
cold drapes on one limb
shrimp buried fetal curling
buffering one warmth
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I need to knock on a locksmith’s door.
As tries on my entrance
Has me hammering for him,
The man outside, in a stance
On his mat.
My security windows live up to their claim.
Cats perched there can watch me
Calmly curse in the rain,
Calm for keys that Mercy sees
Cure to unlatch me.

L O O K

Hope we’re having a heaven so
I’ll look and
Daddy can call out, (& it won’t hurt)
He’ll look just like he just got home from work,
“There’s my angry young man”.
We’d have it out;
My young man’s misery,
His young man’s mystery.
We’d upheave it out. Heavy inquiry.
If he hadn’t killed himself he might have taught me
“you gotta take the bitter with the cold”
Outside, My Mother softened things when she told me
When I was ready she told me
“I know,
It’s vile.
He was so very sick.
They say you/ Have his look.
It is mostly OK,
You know.
I say you’ll have my smile”.

Far

I sweat my bed.
I do all but dread
The undraped dreamscapes.
I’d replay and replay
Heaven’s elevator tunes on tape.
Is it true I did
Fluid-loss & exhaustion,
All that turning and tossing?
I sweat my bed.
First thing is shower head to head,
It takes cold water to weigh
This old man awake to stay down,
Away from high ground.
.
I’d walked hard
To find my feet,
To find a way
In that far town.

MY MELANCHOLY VAMPIRE

Don’t forget, friend,
You’re so dour
You don’t even laugh at yr own jokes,
Or don’t you get them?
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When you nightly set out
Under a mighty moon
To brighten and heat
Yr best features,
Yr long face goes on & on
Though the shadows are gone
And it’s distant stare
Doesn’t stop at dead stars
But goes to their backrow bleachers.
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He’s aroused as the voices
In trees, on the breezes
Distract him post haste w/ poetries,
Extracting his true face, those ghosts in a wind.
Mostly, They’ll lift him,
But their leverage runs thin.

P L A Y

Gather around, all you clowns
Crouch down with me in the florida room
It's way before four
The moon wouldn't never
give us up, It's not yet up over
Us, It's way before four
We'll call her cell
When she starts into work in the dark
The thing will ring
before she points that key ring thing,
What a shock!
It's her 1st birthday call.
Raise Your Glasses!
We'll sing her praises
Work can go jump tonight
It's a day that this Play
Has costume changes galore
And more
What's more
There's more

IT AMAZES ME HOW I HEART THE HAZY ART

tried to maintain straightfacedness
“Photography..
Is taking paintings’ places
At our public art palaces.”
Said a sad man in line, up ahead,
.
“Imaginably..
Detail has its beauty..but the thing
Is..A twin image is less interesting.”
This made me mention McLuhan,
Not the man, but the manuscripts I read.
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It amazes me how I heart the hazy art,
The work we co-create;
The “unfinished” poem we read our way
Then we’re on our way to one ending,
I know this exquisite piano piece
Close yr eyes, you visit new skies, and no ending,
The abstract film, the blurry print..
All a happy accident..that hits you.
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Oh we went on and on,
This man in line and me,
“The Wisdom of Impressionism”
We agreed it would indeed
Go on and on and on.
It’s intentionally
Ill defined.
A painter puts on a mark
Three steps back
Have a looksee
Advance three steps
Add some more to see
Three steps back
P.O.V.
One two and one dip and dab
one two one three
Stand back and see