city lights
clothes
like ripe fruit
fall from the clothesline
it will take you more
than trainfare to get
where you're going
girls girl themselves
poets poet themselves
at night in a pill
or in day on the street
who are you kidding
station to station
the poet moves
hair makes him younger
beige pants businesslike
to that which plugs in
wears on
takes off (under the right
circumstance
the artist changes
his name and builds
a city of light
where no one will know
penpal and pencil
pocket pussy media player
and the yellow boxfish
modernism is dead
postmodernism pretends to have lived
ink is dead (pens be tray
time is dead
money is dead
love of course
(but who dare say
if you want to know me
i will declare citizenship
to the grass
take you to a field
of radiant RGB green
if you want to know me
i will domino you
into the grass
and go into you
like the song of the locomotive
if you want to know me
you will drink my
raw pulsating
iambic dimeter
from the full bodied tip
of my nib
and then
i'll talk to you
what will i say
to you
you say
beard is to pussy as
sandpaper to butter
chair is to doggy style
as hemingway is to all
dogs
train is to me as you
are to me
unleaded or pure
the lesson is clear
1. buy low sell lower
no one will make a
better or more
graceful mockery
of you
2. fling
your genitals in
the air and keep
them there for
a while
3. dedicate a poem
to the penis if you
don't have one
you're shit out of luck
come and suck mine
4. time is a function
of desire and decay
directly proportional
5. if woman is
the nigger
of the world man
better go
iron some shirts
6. greatness is bought
with timespace
if you do not control timespace
then you are worse
than not great
7. there is nothing
else to know
that is not written
in telephone
books
for they count syllables in ja pa n
and all i do is
call moments they
tell me they missed
me and thus we
part on sad but
amicable terms
there is no end
but at the end of the line
wash your clothes
suck some sunrays through a straw
keep emptying your glass
(lest buddha
should find it full
and above else
be happy