I follow past's,
Shadow, let it weave.
Into my hands,
Into dark winter yarn.
These gloves were my dad's.

I sit on the bench,
Floated--

Diminished in royal blue.
Sky, some window of sorts.

A wall to look through.
Growing closer and closer,

Something  to know,
Certainly before breaking--

My noes, a clean cut slab.
A *** of peach.

Cold broke the ice.
That grabbed me close,

And held me tight.
In some darkness.

In some night.
Where it's alright.

In holding myself.
The dark blue sky is so bright.

It knocks me out.
With no one in sight.

shadow
  shadow                   sun
    shadow                   sun
      shadow                   sun
                                         sun
                     sun
                       sun
                         sun
                           sun
  shadow
    shadow
      shadow
                         sun
                                     shadow
                            sun
                   ­           sun
        shadow
         shadow
                            sun
             shadow
                                         sun
                                           shadow

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

r
  i
         v        e
                        r
                            ­i
                           v
                          e
                       r
             i
v
  e       r
                  i
              v
     e
   r

In God we trust
In  God  we  trust
In   God   we   trust

I nuh Gaw duh wii tr uhst
Ein nuh GAHWD wiie TR UHST
EINUH GAHHWD WEIIIE TR UUHS T

EEEEEI NUH GUH AW DH
WUH EEIIIE TH RUH SS TH
EEEEEI  NUH  GUH  AW  DH  
WUH  EEIIIE  TH  RUH  SS  TH
­EEEEEI   NUH   GUH   AW   DH  
WUH   EEIIIE   TH   RUH   SS   TH
EEEEEI    NUH    GUH    AW    DH    
WUH   EEIIIE    TH    RUH    SS    TH

silly boy
watch him f
                      a
                    l
                 ­        l

and with a sssscraaaapppppeeee
and with a              t
                           e d e
                         a dro a
                        r drop  r
                         t  dro  r
                            ea

back up to the park
back to his friend
the
       ballballba
    bredredredreb
aredredredballreda
lredredredredre­drel
  bredredredredreb
      allballllabll

r
c       a
l        a      m
         a      m       p
                 m       p
                            p

life
life
life
life
l i f e
l  i  f  e
l   i   f   e
l    i   f    e
l     i     f     e
l      i      f      e

voidvoidvoid
                       i
                       o
                       v
                       i
                       o
                       v
                       l
                       o
                       v
                       l
                       o
                       v
                       *e

In tastes of spring--
I take myself
By such a wing.

Rip it off--
With red,
White hue.

wear it
live it
eat it

not an animal I am
not an animal I am
not an animal I am

A human I am,
And this is
What I do.

light
trees

inhale
*air

At last I have fallen,
I've felt the--
Return with fire.

Burn me forever.
I will never retire.

I'm
____
you

A rush of nothing.
I feel everything.

In the claustrophobia of the ally,
The hobo sits
Wearing a smile on his sleeve

Under the pink neon lights
Of convertibles and the 1960's.  

Where time stood still
And never moved.

Hobo-man saw,
Saw with his glassy light bulbs.

That the red, white and blue
Does not thrive on me or you.

Hobo-Man sat and watched time change
Watching the blue turn to gray
And gray turn to green

He will stay here, he thought.
Here in the ally way.

The world, too twisted, he thought.
Unable to make him stay.

For Hobo-Man does not live for time here, time now
Everything only makes him frown.

But Hobo-man still smiles somehow
In a world so crooked and hollow.

Hobo-Man burns like a fire
And lives life to live life

Mad to live
Mad to laugh
Mad to cry
Mad to love
Mad to die

Hobo-Man screams to the sky
Burning like a Roman Candle.

a golden frame
touching

the wall like
I

touch
romance

The intersection of my
finger

and the hard gray
fabric

felt
rough and rugged,

along with the nurse's
white dress.

I.
feeling
the words
touch
in midnight's
light

II.
I let it take
me
I let it take
me
I let it take
me

III.
in a point
that ******

I am almost
dead

then
it
takes me

I write 'till
the end

how it was
how it is
how it goes

bury it
bury it
down
dark
and
deep

so
the
feelings
will not seep

so

the
feelings

will not

seep

for
you
have
an image
to keep

the
most
important
thing,

as
I weep

watch
the rock tumble

do I who
bird
do I who

watch
the rock splash
the rock drown

dark
day
bright

voooooooooooo
   oooooooooooo
   oooooooooooo
   ooooooooooooid

expanse
of
air

in
glorious
contraption

not sure
if
any expanse
at all

look
           look
at this dam

something to
hold back

all this
emotion
I have

fortitude

cracked
rugged
rock

fortitude

this
path
I walk

sun--touched
me
as--a
woman

thermal
the rays
of warm air

thermal
her bright
orange hair

serenity

of
the river




shook

by
broken spirits
of
backbones
found

leaf
scratches
across the street

that sound
that sound

is death

car
scratches
across the street

death is

outbursts
in
the hollow

break
walls in
eyes
of
somebody's
everybody

life:
dry,
on the rocks

love
ove
ov
nove
tovue
luv
luuuuuuhv

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interlink   interlink   interlink
link  interlink   interlink   interlink
interlink   interlink   interlink
link  interlink   interlink   interlink

melt
melt,
I
into nothing
                ing
                ing

lucid, was me
and my loosened seems

I keep she

dialectic man
something of a
cynic man
          man

cloudy
clouds
out

Dark rivers run between society and I
slicing a **** where these words bled fourth
like this since animals touched animals
hypocrites are we
for we forget the past
     but keep it in our hearts
to teach our children
the way to start

Wrong, but so wrong are we
let us pass the past
to society
(wrong, but so wrong are we)

Let us not look to something new
Let us look to something old

Forget how to be human
Forget how to evolve

this was life
this was strife
this is snow

vase
shatters
sound

hear it
sound

this is
sound

this is
sound

here it is
breaking

all away