Sunday, May 31, 2009
Monday, November 24, 2008
God must love crazy people
He made so many of us
When we talk to ourselves
on a busy street and we are not
talking into a cellphone
he smiles
When we start arguments out of nothing
and imagine persecution
so person we bleed, literally we bleed
he wants to cry
When we miss the rent because
we had to spent the only money we had
on a Krazy Kat clock with ping pong eyes
it is fulfilling as if this
was what the universe was for
When we weep ourselvbes to sleep
because we can't seem to change
and we drive everyone we love
out into the night cursing
it matters, it matters a great deal to him
Must must love crazy people or why
would he make them the way that they are
impossible to put with
and unhealable as disease
Hhe loves us because
we remind him of him
Incomprehensible
to the heart
When we talk to ourselves
on a busy street and we are not
talking into a cellphone
he smiles
When we start arguments out of nothing
and imagine persecution
so person we bleed, literally we bleed
he wants to cry
When we miss the rent because
we had to spent the only money we had
on a Krazy Kat clock with ping pong eyes
it is fulfilling as if this
was what the universe was for
When we weep ourselvbes to sleep
because we can't seem to change
and we drive everyone we love
out into the night cursing
it matters, it matters a great deal to him
Must must love crazy people or why
would he make them the way that they are
impossible to put with
and unhealable as disease
Hhe loves us because
we remind him of him
Incomprehensible
to the heart
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Beheaded
The word has been undermined
so you think of mattocks
and stained chopping blocks
but it should be a term of approval
as in, that that is one well-beheaded young man,
and he will go places
or her beauty was beheaded with
a diadem of roses that pulsed
with fragrance in the dying light
or for use in a vow
when it must be especially clear
what we intend, as I'll
beheaded home to you
so you think of mattocks
and stained chopping blocks
but it should be a term of approval
as in, that that is one well-beheaded young man,
and he will go places
or her beauty was beheaded with
a diadem of roses that pulsed
with fragrance in the dying light
or for use in a vow
when it must be especially clear
what we intend, as I'll
beheaded home to you
The Great Chain of Being
File upon file, every species standing on the shoulder of another species,
every individual within each species standing atop the one almost as worthy as him,
but not quite, like the rings of saturn that go on forever,
and somewhere in there is the least worthy person, standing on the shoulders
of a perspicacious ape, or maybe the ape has eclipsed him already
every individual within each species standing atop the one almost as worthy as him,
but not quite, like the rings of saturn that go on forever,
and somewhere in there is the least worthy person, standing on the shoulders
of a perspicacious ape, or maybe the ape has eclipsed him already
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Unmitigated gall
The oak tree has a gall around its trunk,
the only exception to its perfect upright lines
but it makes the tree look pregnant
and suggests a shortened life.
But what does a tree think.
The water rises, the sugar is distributed,
the leaves splay out in the sun
like stewardesses on layoff.
Photosynthesis wants no more than this
and the effect of hideousness
at the waistline, a tumor of wood
that throws everything off kilter
is minimal, or less.
Life goes on despite deformity
despite circuitousness
despite all obstacles to our flow.
the only exception to its perfect upright lines
but it makes the tree look pregnant
and suggests a shortened life.
But what does a tree think.
The water rises, the sugar is distributed,
the leaves splay out in the sun
like stewardesses on layoff.
Photosynthesis wants no more than this
and the effect of hideousness
at the waistline, a tumor of wood
that throws everything off kilter
is minimal, or less.
Life goes on despite deformity
despite circuitousness
despite all obstacles to our flow.
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