Archive for March 2021

loving someone who does not fit the norm

if you whisper i will hear brooklyn near manhattan not far from the bronx once went atop the world trade center saw wall street a hot dog vendor a pretzel saleswoman yonkers and staten island beautiful new jersey the sunset over union city took a tunnel went under the hudson then north to the cloisters…

call it art or suicide as the camera shows your face and fingers shows how you dress and eat shows how you drive and fuck shows it all then eats your soul whatever that is might have a day a few months maybe a few years until it all disappears

your work was on the sofa with her arrival that is why there is piss all over even heard you crying soft sounded like a child

know you try and never quite get it right stumble over cracks and bottles empty of soda who are you anyway filled with intention good real forgotten words relaxing cocktail having overcome depression elation everything but yourself sings like an apricot born before rain term oil existing and the guy on the corner was not…

consider it a date for the future consider it written down now it can last now eternal

we have to talk not about trees or art irish food or diaries forgotten am not an editor i write we have to talk not about summer on the shore winter with a sleeping bear anything associated with the past except pizza we have to talk for one last time and why would you want…

had an uncle in the cavalry road a horse and pretended to be important had maps with attack angles everything written down orders flowed wine in celebration pills by the handful what separated us was us the distance between ocean city and newaygo between baltimore and st louis who cares me and you and the…

what the day brings if you are lucky a memory luckier a happy one filled with whatever you want

wanted then wanted more then wanted to take a shower feel the water warm so i could understand