I’m never amazed by old marketing tools but you can’t garden with machine gun hands. “Hell—you want gardens? Go to the park.”
Self-Portrait at 27
My moon is not my honeymoon.
The real truth about me
is not the wine-induced truth
(98 points) but
instead something dusty in the magazine aisle
with my name as the title
only one issue put out
couldn't sell enough ads.
Stay the night with me, Moon.
Vonnegut breathed the air of Dresden and saw you.
You and the city looked the same.
A man wearing sunglasses
and a very orange cap
looked at it once but put it down.
Was he my father?
Questions, yes, questions.
There will be five minutes for questions.
Help, Freud.
Sometimes a banana is just a banana.
Even when it sells for a dollar
in this convenient store of me before sleep,
six times the price if you bought it online.
I keep thinking about that Venetian
boat ride I never went on, the one
where I’m drinking wine and mingling
with people from all over the world.
As I lie here and tune in Denver
Another night
Another night
And memoirs don’t inspire.
Seedling
like a pocketful of wildflower seed & you’re sitting in the wetting waiting meadow
Rockford
I fell asleep this
afternoon watching
the Senate on C-SPAN2.
When I woke up
Dick Durbin
was talking about
trains & Illinois
and about how lately
the trains have
been passing on through
without even stopping
for water.
Easter Supplemental 2007
It was a bloody nightbombs blew all throughout Baghdadand here at homesomething got at our resident rabbitstrewing its fur all across the yardand leaving it to die, partially eaten, under the deck.We’ve all got wars we’re fightingnot all of them take billions of dollarsor thousands of men.It’s true Mr. PresidentThe end can be as simpleas … Continue reading Easter Supplemental 2007
Baseball Entitlement Program
I’m here to tell you
Radio is still alive in America
And the bluest angels
Just flew over
For the national anthem
Tearing open the sky
Touching off car alarms &
Laying waste our factories of credit
Prime Meridian
There is a fifty-two watt bulbin Indiana.It has nothing to dowith Eastern standard time.In Louisville for New Year’s the ball dropped one hour ahead of time.Honestly, I never even knewthere was a mountain timeuntil Colorado joined baseball.An act of aging is nicotineso don’t talk about what’s opposite the International Dateline.Just fire it in there,let ‘em … Continue reading Prime Meridian
All Things Considered
The way light slides across a wooden floor
I struggle w/ a hangnail making it worse
the blue cornflowers
in the rug at my feet
Remind me that Friday is just a day &
no one owes me anything
Damen und Herren
Dumbass move of the day. Going into theladies’ room here at Neue Nationalgalerie.Went into DAMEN for some unknown reason(I’m an idiot?). Came in and an older lady (55)was washing her hands. We conversed in themirror. I was like, “What the hell is she doingin here?” Then she said something. I said, “Sorry?”I was still thinking … Continue reading Damen und Herren
Acer Rubric
When he shook
the once-sand bottle
what was left made the sound
of a maple leaf growing
It is not possible, he thought,
and it would not be appropriate
for me to shake hands
with a leaf’s three jagged hands
Who needs leaves anyway?
Nothing but the fruited conspiracy
of seed and soil repetitive, hogwash
But the aging leaf in the bottle
interrupted him saying,
Leaves run their veins in all directions
hoping to report most sun
They are green when they need to be,
and red in their rest allegiant to none
but the season
When he finished drinking the leaf
he searched for a sunrise, any sunrise,
his head tilted back,
in sun-loving obeisance
