(the
only sequel i can offer)
on
her balcony
l.a.
is so bright at night
i
can count all the stars in the sky
after
dinner she had me and sake
now
she’s sleeping
and
i’m keeping watch
on
the meaningless motions
making
their mark on
non-existent
time
but
you know me
i’m
never alone
there’s
always whiskey
went
to a funeral recently
never
been before
it
affected me
wept
bitterly
even
said words at the podium
well
deserved adulation
but
my heart was haunted
by
the ghost of a whisper
that
the realization of my vexation
in
these words i write
in
the form of lousy poetry
is
a coffin
everything’s
for nothing
it
just is
and
then it isn’t
and
that’s all it ever was
without
a because
so
i join with the things
that
joust with my joy
this
cigarette
this
whiskey
this
girl that unfurled
at
the fullness of my touch
love
is double-dutch
regardless
of what the upanishads say
except
maybe the seed that inseminates
no,
even that’s not true
how
many of you
are
no longer with the one
with
whom you had a child
or
weren’t there at the funeral
after
your parent died
i
desperately search for substance
and
the only thing i can bring
is
to move the sidewalk to my feet
put
the plugs of my mp3 in
select
r.e.m.’s uberlin
and
start dancing
disappearing
into the darkness
of
the witching hour
till
i am devoured and defecated
by
the euphoria of dancing
to
music that moves me
a
mile away what can i say
all
your beatitudes i cannot pray
when
she wakes and finds me gone
no
song is a timeless melody
there’s
just me and my appetites
and
wings for flight
that
long ago flew
too
close to the sun
cause
after all is said and done
there’s
only illusions
that
illuminate the illicit
and
invites us to invigorate
the
indigenous
because
and
i’m getting really tired of saying this
everything
is relative
to
the reasons we want a reprise
to
justify the compromise
that
codifies the collusions
that
everyone refuses to un-illusion
the
contusions that cause pain
with
each breath we fear death
while
all the while
death
is waiting
where
no traces of you survive
and
all the pain you knew alive
has
found the ultimate bottle
that
deadens all the pain
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