do you
want
to grow
up
be concerned
act concerned
filled with visions
apples
tangerines
and peruvian food

i wish you were
a tree with leaves

fresh seafood as
opposed to
the other kind

armed the corn
dig a hole
get a watch
dog

she is
real
like a dream

having
never heard of
most things
a food condiment
feel like honey
mustard

what comes next
what
comes after that

get the honey

she brings me
love
and wishes
and
hate
and thoughts
impossible
to share

spoke fast without
consequence
became meaningless
cut in half

here is what
we get
start then
finish

cried like a stream
gaining momentum

here you will land
here you will take
up space
to be filled in
later

how
this life
doesn’t
work

filled with
tears blood thought
junk
passion and rose
water

it’s important to smell
nice creative successful
you
see all that

with your fingers
toes pores dna
dreams

still
over here

devoted
to study
every
inch of your
inch
every gesture
here
to entertain eternity

screams at windows
you got the guns
i got the bullets

they have an airplane
that
drops things
that
explode

here
shot this with
a phone

on my lap all
sleeping
cat dreams
your dreams
my dreams
seem important
and urgent
they are
ready
and awake
sleeping
on your lap
too

she wore a suit
made
of silk and hemp

read the news
from
a teleprompter

most of it
terrible and
horrifying

then
a happy story
about
a butterfly dodging bullets
finding
her way home

all is not lost
here
just parts

it’s an open wound
a diary entrance
someplace with sun
without light

i correct
revisit the trance
play remote
nothing was
something

you recall
leafs remember
time’s journey
mushrooms in equal parts
caps and stems

buried in the bone
your documentary
how about that

poems are lessons
art is space
outer space is now
filled with garbage
so travel
safe

sitting
on the shore
in michigan
in holland maybe
speaking the dutch
rhyming words with
yardbirds with
cats and some
bully who loves
this neighborhood

here you
know
semi invisible
seeking candy for
the afterlife
feral food for energy
a nameless star
and a new home
orbiting heaven