every day,
another terrified,
malignantly insecure
man
behaving with
violence and
bravado.
Category Archives: Poetry
then, you just practice
you wish
you’d said
less.
eat fewer foods with high concentrations of purine and oxalic acid
the body is
mostly
empty.
a diet low in oxalates
i do not
know so
i think about
it
for far longer
than seems
rational
or appropriate.
my man is lonely in a hotel while i am nothing and nowhere and in bliss
a literal genius
a failure of edges is a success of acceptance
when it is hot enough
the new spot is only a few hundred feet from the old but still its superiority is vast
a
chuckle really,
but without
condescension,
do nothing, feel everything
“your tailpipe is
the most beautiful
rusted orange”,
i said,
with a smile,
and
the driver looked at me
with a pale mixture
of confusion
and suspicion
and said
“what?”
there is a difference between thoughtless and not thinking
the human animal
has wiped out
near all the other
animals, again.
revelry in a rainforest
the bars are
dripping
with people.
this vastness, a window onto eternity
i cannot
always choose
when
i go.
they play in montreal in january, if you wanted to see them live
there must be
something wrong
with them,
i think,
a stiff neck and a few hours of sleep
quiet to keep
from our gunmetal
fear.
i’d like to be peaceful but still i broke the caulking gun when it didn’t work as i wanted it to
i felt fat
on an evening couch,
eating cherry pie.
fine lines and spirals
quiet, only insects and wind
low bush blueberries in the high alpine
a
human body
moves through
the dark
when i wear women’s clothing i remember that we are made mostly of water
i bought a
pair of pants
designed for,
marketed as,
“women’s”,
to save about
thirty dollars.
maybe if it sits for a while new growth will slow the leak
underneath me,
silently,
water seeps.
the back is wooden which is nice as the sweat won’t soak in
without any
intestine
i carry my own
waste
in a bag,
like a dog’s.
i’ve been told more than once that i’m too negative
i don’t think the town is beautiful
i thought about it for months and then it took only a few minutes to do
i can always try again
i’m sorry, but i do not remember you
future human, do you exist?
not so much trying to understand as trying to do no harm
one reason that
life is
troubling
is that
we are
opposites
at the same time.
i enjoy eating pizza, and many other foods
what you do is; go to a place where people gather
deep down south where my body has never been
i ain’t with being broke