a shifting of papers
reveals coffee stains
if we saw ourselves trudging
i think we’d want to know
i love details
ephemera
are we killers, are we safe?
i’ve lost my close eye;
i must appeal
to the vast emptiness inside all of us
late at night
I pour over the thesaurus
for synonyms for universe
the cars wait as long as they need to
i’ll rust, they seem to say.
sirens and two by fours and a thick yellow
light covering the herd
pictures start small and get bigger,
this is no mystery
Audio Saturdays!
me euphorically getting some kind of song idea on the way home from the bar one night when i still lived at the apartment. never turned it into anything – except this blog post! $50 bucks to the person who can turn this into a real song.
black highways pt.4
a small white white wobbly
metal table
painted white but not having faded
significantly.
no clue what
we were talking about but i woke up
unable to go back to sleep
black highways pt. 3
i never know what to get
at a deli.
here it is:
that deli in chappaqua i used to stop in
when i would go to the
warehouse for deliveries. also the warehouse
itself
deli sandwich options always seemed
so bland and cold.
yellow cheese on a hard roll? i don’t know
what i got but there i am
sitting on public benches on the corner
black highways pt. 2
i could not make out the words or
the logo
that should have been a clue.
a lyric introducing the
highway love unlimited collective
said back in the day it was just
the 18 of us, sounded to me like
wishful head counting.
i was full of sweat in my
ex girlfriend’s sleeveless gray
static tee shirt
black highways pt. 1
they call
it love unlimited but
i’m not sure if i believe
them.
three segments: deli at the mall
the long walk through a well lit
square
then at the bookstore where it became clear
the fever broke overnight
and some wet weather rolled through
as i stare at slick pavement
and umbrellas fat
we line up to strut
creating a world from
good health and fear
and traffic
bought me time.
here in my monday best
i shake the edges
Sunshine and Wind 