the long and short of it is impossible /
unless history begins /
at the same time everyday /
and disappears as the din recedes /
let’s divorce /
even though we’ve never been married /
mainly for the social awkwardness /
after the pronounced fact
I forget the lines /
I assured myself last night /
I would remember /
I know who to trust going forward /
don’t get me started on the sun /
difficult to read /
keeping a safe distance /
what to fear from us ants? /
so much about love /
this one thing /
mistaken as so many different lines /
deceiving with the best intent
everything happens once /
I need a hospital bed to attend to /
flattened, sanitized sheets /
to hang over my head /
a window sealed shut /
to prevent drops /
some easing into death /
some complaining about stains /
on ceiling tiles sinking overhead /
not a cross but an X on the wall /
trying to discern hall voices /
for today’s statistics /
a river and a waterfall are preferable noise /
leading to that bend /
placed in the distance /
a drop a drop a drop /
in the shared bathroom /
it wakes and it softens /
drawing the lifelong film off skin
the cup of coffee is singular /
the glass of water is unmoved /
the great oceans of colours is late /
Corona Borealis thins as the kitchen light ignites /
the screen window halves the worlds /
one whose lines measure /
the determined weight around us /
bowing into the cement bed beneath /
one shrugging off an extended series of human ads /
from the overflowing sink staining the fallen world /
to the democratic king riding himself to gated freedom /
this one outside waiting for our stage to collapse
mouthing to who /
new new new /
forgo knew /
a well of a place /
the capital of Boston /
bricks everywhere /
settled generations ago /
long slow rail to centres /
occupying the colour green /
say something to see /
what can be said /
not an argument in sight /
sandwich boards and cardboard symbols /
glowing far from fire /
digging out one organ at a time /
take me to that new name circulating /
gargle, repeat, until the minute tires
shore rocks are for perching and pondering /
what fell off the earth today? /
its image still rippling /
towards the lake’s centre /
a fresco partially painted over /
and then thought better /
some event, small scale but religiously significant /
trust restored in the invisible world /
not to be moved until the building collapses becoming lake edge /
water eventually lifts everything /
what smoothed rocks were stadiums /
distracting a populace at critical moments? /
a beach of stones is most welcoming /
history undone /
our names stilled on the teetering shelf /
resting before the lake after toppling /
for the millionth first time
the fly never posits why /
fly smells now and further now /
far away, not country /
but body of wealth /
rising after expiration /
live’d, in passed tense /
grammar is for those /
required to remember /
snapping around /
inside the rib’s cage /
fly lends progress /
to our material joke
better to leave this air /
trusting the uneven shape of absence /
hold the abstract carefully /
don’t skip any of the instructions /
words peeled away /
for an international audience /
leaving figures naked for a name /
there are those who smell the world /
always a clean wardrobe /
to sift through the smog /
blood doesn’t come back to us /
shocked when it finds /
the path of least resistance away always /
the centre line is painted over monthly /
it’s not a crime /
if there’s a committee behind it /
yellow doesn’t speak to people anymore /
the need to spend on the middle /
always a balanced object weighting the mind /
as the nights grow taller
when I spit /
it will be a child /
sound slicing down the street /
words may never knock /
on the promised door /
heirs leaking into the bay /
gnawing boat hulls /
and the chest’s hopeful lock /
this way two too serious /
cut to a child holding up their dusty arms to a camera lens /
they know what penetrates play /
profit over movement /
suggesting a finger in the soft skull /
please make bastards of us all /
so the sun finally fails
no ever does happen /
often in cities that change their name /
weightless history, little loss where /
each child there is /
the first human on the planet /
as blank as a portable sign lot /
their place /
only a few steps onto the continent /
growing paper thin /
turned sideways /
gesturing simply in the gusts /
long winds clearing across /
the country’s bare middle /
said child unrecognized /
in the floor to ceiling mirrors /
handed down /
save a slogan /
be anything you can bet against