embarrassing alchemy

I rest my sore ankles in the cold

water of a copper urn, 

lined on the bottom with unicorn teeth. 

 

The magic leaches 

from the mine; 

It comes back like pine needles 

getting cold again, come winter. 

Winterwillcomethepineswillgrowcold

thepineswillsurvive

thepineswillthriveagain

 

t h i s is a l l about rebirth,

and using Androgel 1.62%, 

this is about fucking up

and finding the way to say

hello, i'm in mourning, 

early signs of puberty in a child,

maybe he's using my product, 

(PLEASE BUY 

OUR TESTOSTERONE 

SHAM)

 

hey baby, get out' my grotto. 

pain during sleep

wood clots in the legs

 

the television laments us

with TV dreams and insane nichrome 

wires, heating our goddam spleens live

silver smithereens, a broken pipe

discovered when you step 

on a glass shard. 

 

Only then. 

this is what's happening THEN--

Oh man, traffic spikes,
like a dike breaking and molecules making
their way down the culvert to the other side
of the hill that separated the waters.

Meeting people is like saying hello,
my favorite color is yarrow--your favorite
flavor is yellow. "My favorite weed
is Jimson--eat their seeds &

you're Jim Henson--people become
muppets and their heads become puppets--
strings held by somebody whispering
words of their own, snippets really,

about a game on television regarding
basketball that you are watching, but
not completely paying attention to, because
you're writing. That's what you do,

that makes you." 666-6666. For wherever
you want to go--right call now, be on time--
six six six, six six sixty six. THE NUMBER 6! 

A commercial just now interrupting my
thoughts like a fucking virus. 

Is This A Question

It sure seems like it.
Why the long pause
after saying what you said
?

Is this even a response.
yes: yes.
Do you see what I see
?

Upside down question marks
hablaramos mañana amigo
tenemos soco y amaretto, y como se dice "lime"
?

3 miller lites y una piñata.
chips, salsa, tequila con whiskey, fiesta 
chili con carne
!!



pterodactyl
terrible - redact
pteronadon
and on and on 

Lepidoptera.

Adoption Era

brown ankles

the brown indian girl said
the straw was itching her
brown ankles but really it
was her
over-starched socks. madre
esta nuevo,  has an amigo,
hasta la cervezas mas fina.
hasta la vista. hastas in the
backyard, water them.
hastas & columbines. vines.
she think not too much
about thee, socks.

anymore. the heart, she says,
moving on,
is never ending. it is a bla
nket woven into a shroud
that's circular. si senor. the

frog & the fish are, how do
you say, amigos. they drink
cervezas in the dugout or
argue about sobriety. i told
you, i'm not using, ever
again. i just want back in
the business. (who doesn't.)

was this a story or is this
the conversation we're
having.

who is her body
needing, nobody asks any
more.

is this a thought or a request:
fuck me like tomorrow's
never coming.

i'm getting tired of all the
second-guessing.

white ghost of a fish

a staunch ally & his sister were eating
she said: i'm really breathing aren't i
here ribs were rising & falling -- yes, then,
he said, gritting his teeth & gleaming up
(meaning looking) at yon moon ha-
rumph, up there. another afternoon will

come with it's inevitable clomp of boots
on the sidewalks and now, another glass
of wine, another
ball of twine just-here-now gone, dear
mother, your son's in a sweatsuit & has
taken up postage stamps. you know,
he's (you'll find him) going to various

postal stations throughout the nation
with his hands held out siphoning stamps
from the feel-good daddies, who are
singing songs of lamps & glue, days
& nights spent fingerlessly staring
(with tweezers) inspecting; carousing
the nebulously bureaucratic ghosts of;
licking & sealing; paying & pumping;
weighing just right; adorning with trim
& bunting; these sacred parcels hereto-
fore undelivered and then magically

-- like a white ghost of a fish
out from the green water of a
December shoal --

appearing!: a gift from mother.
happy halloween

Few words re: dreams

Many sad faces bad places

emory memory erasers

shots no chasers

shows with no lasers

shows with lasers

activate the phasers

of the moon,

phase 2: beginning soon

you can play through. 

if you sing in tune

out of touch 

with the earth

you put your faith in mirth

and happiness,

but what happens if

the end of the world is near
Mayan Christmas 2012 this year

Fiddler and the Elf coming in 2031 though
when the world doesn't really end
and people hopefully don't freely pretend
or feebly attempt to blend in to be normal
conformist conference, very informal like an
infomercial, immersed in diversions. Virtual
versions of me you see on TV
not really, I don't watch TV it's so trendy
i'm on facebook so friend me
you're in the digital age I'm at Wendy's

this should be a rap