creak
like your bones like
the old door on its rusty hinges
soft like
tiptoeing on rickety boards
in chilly winter. yes. yes. yes.
your eyes are splinters
prickling fiercely at the back of my mind
you are you are you are
the last puzzle piece
and my wish upon a star.
like sinking toes into carpet
or watching people bet on things
they can't afford to lose.
like cravings for weird food
and attention
and maybe some soft
words once in a while.
like that, yeah.
trickle trickle
of river and blood
or tears.
salt rust clean.
you are clean.
you are.
like the breathless moment
before gravity rips a rollercoaster down
or grav
The Ivory Piano
There sits the ivory piano that she used to play
If snowflakes had voices it was what they would say
A note was like a raindrop falling from a wintry sky
Her fingers telling their story of when they could fly
There aren't many residents in this building;
It's falling apart in some of the gilding
But now something feels as if it's gone astray
There'll be no Great Gig in the Sky today
The landlord is eighty years old or so
You often find him staring out at the crow
That will scarily perch on his windowsill
He often tells you that he's over the hill
Now that she's gone, there's sadness in his eyes
You don't need to
There is a uniformity of sound
that saturates the universe-
some sequence of sight
that captures the brain
and rolls it around till it is no
more a mind
than an idea.
Thrown against the great wall of humanity,
it flattens,
and grows
into a being.
And where the thinker's seed is dropped,
- where it sprouts -
is the consciousness
of partaking in life.
Fill a coconut up,
With pipe smoke,
Then open it up,
And that's all that comes out.
Your contents are never,
Surprising,
When you're too clever,
To think for yourself.
Stagnating, Wallowing, Idling,
Dreaming of a muse that,
Will make a bell ring,
Dragging you from under your empty bed.
Where you play with all of the dust bunnies,
Accumulate dirt,
Attend their parties,
And listen to all of their whisperings.
Day after day,
Just like the day before,
I have nothing to say,
That you haven't heard.
But I continue promising,
I'll divulge my secrets,
Every trivial thing,
Without growing or learning anything.
Coconuts lit by p