minute
wait up
for this
friend to
tick off
its catching
breath and
draw parallel
like two
lines with
two el’s
the train
of thought
reaches the
station in
the Bronx
or Queens
the friends
get off
at and
walk out
of below
onto the
french tablecloth
of sun
in a
black and
white movie
in one
of those
theaters with
a sky
NOTE TO A DUMB FRIEND
how long’s it been
since we last spoke
there are infinitely less
bridges left
than last a lifetime
weather’s finally gotten nice
the sky in t-shirt
how’s yourself the kids
must be grown a lot
since I last saw them
has the job been working
out all right everything
’s pretty much the same
here, but a little better,
if that makes any sense
the sun’s on the scene
the tiniest random bolt
blocks away glows
despite rust windows
and brick take on a fire
you wouldn’t expect
this I’d miss if I was
n’t here that, and
dinner with friends
you haven’t been down
to see the apartment yet
—the one I share—so I
can only approximate the view
the rent is nothing in
comparison the state of
the nation, body politic
corrupt body that houses
the dog’s skeleton is
nothing even the glowing
nerve-ends of buildings
are nothing to the vertical
pleasure harvested from
the horizontal don’t
get me wrong my feet
are still very much on
the ground my feet are
grounded in sacred principles
that carry me to sharpen
my wits on the whetstone
of today’s air suddenly
we’ve passed all that
on a train of thought with
a hook in it to reach out
and grasp the male principle
in the station just passed
this allows us to nap in
comfort for awhile, letting,
like efficiently circulating
blood, the breeze gently
blow around the toe
managing to move me a foot
from where I started
but, enough about me
how about you
THE/SKELETON
the
skeleton
of
the
gestures
were
glowing
PORE SUSPENSION
I’m having a hard time making ends meet
So what, my suit is tan, that is the style
What with the grocery bills being
What they are. Do you have the same trouble
Now. And you know damn well that that is the way
Adding 2 and 2 and getting uneasy,
Strange numbers you never thought existed before?
I
