one minute to midnight
Fill one glass with water. At 𝅗𝅥, make a ding.
now 𝅗𝅥 now 𝅗𝅥 now 𝅗𝅥 now 𝅗𝅥 now
like people who place two spaces after
a period this city must be destroyed
so what if the cheesecake is sour
so what if the sky is ensmog'd
don't cry put your leg on my hand
and press down
when the acid rains fall you draw
an outline of a beautiful eclipse
as we're led to doom like shoes to cobbler
the slow man sings in cursive in the kitchen
the quick brown fax it is suddenly dark
love doesn't buy bread
if the stars can align ever so proper
i will suddenly see my moraic tongue
the love that's elephants
the cash that's donkeys
life in the riparian zone ain't easy
you get visions of burroughs in a trounced cloche
you sing odes while giving furtive handjobs to allen
you piss on hank and pass the branch to the yid
as the poet jumps over and under
birds of a feather feed on metal and leather
I am god knows where on a chilly deck
with a view on a small green church
the salmon run the water threatens to sunder
the dog a cushion now then later nothing
she leaves the light on in the closet
she doesn't mean or she don't mean the worst
I'm forgetting the people I've slept with
she tells me as i haunt her
the house bond as ghost
i've given all my curlicues to her
all my verbal tics my titles
what's left a bowl of screws
a cigarette some coins the still life of
a man who sneaks in traffic
the viciousness and virtue of our circles
she's walking backwards to the car
anusol for me for her antipsychotics
some gifts to bridge the cultural divide
the old man smokes alone out back at night
she tells me there's a snake afield
so what if she was off by one