let’s drive around
or
you can just
come
here or
me go there

when
we traveled by boat
we waited
for spice
ships or
large screen television
from
japan or
korea

by birth
American
by death
universal

it was
close
remember
it was camden
or
someplace
like the irish
coast

fucking ending up
in port
it was close

somehow
always
missing

let’s drive away
let’s just go drive
away

there is no explaining
just a
letter and
it is signed

thanks
appreciate that
appreciate
all your efforts

nothing
and a gift

seen
what you would
say
was a ghost
once

wasn’t like that at all

then twice
then
would see them
almost
daily

there is a whole
other
world
somewhere
pretty close

shot self
in
foot
because
thought
that
was where
the brain is

was right

smelled like a
cigarette and
a sewer

a combination
minus lock

hey where’s the lake
over there pointing

buy some soap
A toothbrush
more cigarettes

I am tired

loathing is when
you
open the door
walk inside
and
say
hello

to you and your shitty
world
drive your car from
here to grand
haven
running over deer

nobody deserves death
still
everybody dies
and
what makes you so
bitter

a series or
one
horrible marriage

we did laugh once
it was funny

woke up here

time
invented by a
flower
passed
on to a bee
that
will
eventually sting
me

time
a whisper
heard
centuries ago
on a ship
crossing land
that
would later
become
the ocean
Pacific