Monday, December 19, 2016

look at who you are living to please


caught on the cusp of a crayola colored wave

the only thing i crave is a close shave

between conjoined twins

 

let’s begin again

in this wave there are no fins

from predatory prehistorics

mouth foaming fossils fermented

while the ancient gods of euporean culture

are arguing with plato beyond the grave

 

so why save anything but a lullaby

i try not to why

i just want to guide

the conversation to who should be on top

 

walking on blacktop

past bookshops and bus stops

i don’t eavesdrop

on any vocal chords

there is nothing worth listening to

except really good music

 

so drop the seed of your need

on fertile ground

i won’t be around

to wait for the harvest

i’m just a guest

who won’t wear out his welcome

 

i fondle, forget and become another moment

but for a moment i will make you

feel less toxic

while i stumble on bukowski boulevard

draw the sword and slay the dragon

of your desire

everything was destroyed in the fire

but i haven’t lost a thing

 

and love will never bring closer

just exposure

that the opening scene

is all we wish to enact

a one act play

before the gray becomes the dilution

of the clarity of black and white

 

so i spend the night

and leave you with memories

of how you wish it could always be

intimacy

without the afterbirth of responsibility

of all the things

you will collect

while you fret

on the frailty of your existence

 

i don’t believe in happy or sad

but i would be glad

to stare at you on a godless shore

the crayola covered waves gray

as the earth and sky

no reason to espy

just see you in the coastal cold

and realize you in the moment

nothing more

 

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