Friday, March 10, 2017

middle of mulholland drive


the sea of my synapses

is surging with silence

i listen to sarah jaffe

drink

feel nothing

link together cigarettes

in a chain of boredom

 

i want to write about

hearing her heartbeat

my head on her chest

in a quiet quilted bed

but i like to write about

things i actually experience

and not about things of which

i only gather from echoes in the wind

poems which are disingenuous

are stillborn

 

i delete from my mp3 anything

that’s not a soft downward spiral

find a long version of archive’s

“again” and spin

the top off my bottle

 

twist the top back on tighter

feel a little lighter

well, enough to choose

“cars hiss by my window”

by the doors

which reminds me of my place

which i’m just going to head back to

 

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