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what

the gods are alone up there and to become a god you must become alone where others pray to be in your company and the burning suns you don’t notice for you are doing what you need to do what others don’t understand and what is what when there is only you and what you … Continue reading

king of the sheep

king of the sheep i ruled hooved and wooly black and brown and red they followed truly with bahs and burps and the occasional squeals i led them from danger and grass green for meals king of the sheep i was once outcast with musings and silence and never meant to last i was a … Continue reading

mumbles

i don’t understand how i’ve met so many smart people to see so little change from one day to the next and even a few years ago have the same numbness like a blanket that when it’s taken off there is another fold underneath and when that goes another fold another fold another fold and you’re … Continue reading

winter hangover

i can read other people’s thoughts and they say am i as crazy as that man who is reading my thoughts or am i worse because i don’t know if that’s what he’s thinking and some days i don’t know what i’m thinking because i change so quickly before i understand what it was and … Continue reading

older than grandfather

my grand father, my grandfather could tell you stories that made you repeat words so you could believe that soil could make men cuss and grow with swords scattered like disappointing flowers and blood like miscoloured daisies and planes that could go higher than before until the next plane goes higher and people that were … Continue reading

future without

i am summer in the grass the movement of a dead body the anything anyone? who wants you and i tried and true and left only for me and you to discover in the winter on the trees and the autumn in the colours and that body there – mine – that is still and lonely like … Continue reading

sinking thinking thoughts

the following are some thoughts to think thoughtfully while sinking in you. * how lovely would the world be if it hadn’t heard of love * the only proof of life on other planets is our own * what would it take to take it all in besides taking ourselves out from it all to … Continue reading

where do we go when we go away

in response to the turkey bombing. * i want to write a poem that could change things that could make you feel so strongly that you’ll stop doing much more and you’ll just keep reading while i keep writing adding more and more to this poem so it doesn’t end and if it does it … Continue reading

immortal rituals

if only things could be different is said in the same way by different people in the same world using different languages but the same mouths * and he’s drunk feeling drunk drunk feelings that stay on until he is hungover and he feels again like the hung man who is released and he heaves … Continue reading

you you me

i was born from a baby on her knees cleaning and hanging on to the floor like a bat to a cave but she scrubs too well and slips and starts again erasing herself and the blood she never learned how to suck up * where do you you is it here reading or in … Continue reading