Monday, May 1, 2023

..99~*drifted



desk

to lately be sharing 
    my bed with just 
sand 
    it's fine 

have you ever seen
a drawing made in  
gunpowder? 
              how when 
lit from one end the 
fire races    along it 
like a snake 
            all the way 
    to the other? 

distortion high on 
the fretboard sings
to me like that; 

hot,         sparkling 
songs make me cry
daily but      I can't 
tell sometimes  the
tears feel A.I.? like
  tears very witness
or replicant     as in 
moved by not   my 
own heart        but? 

because    I want it         
like because    they 
are       silk chiffon
the curtains I made
hover like     
                     a dog

(*fog) like 

once when I was 16 
I left class  because 
I was stuck  
in third person      I
walked as far as 

I         couldn't stop 
crying so hard that 
my nose bled thick 
dots onto the steps    
where I was hiding

dad and us     on the 
fog beach with the 
dog     a treat in his 
hand wind whipping 
a strand of hair into
my mouth red jacket
lined w/ fleece b&w 
striped shirt

I was this I was that
I was    any     thing
I can't really    look
at those photos  not 
now, here  knowing
what           happens