tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48073623696691462512024-03-15T21:11:25.043-04:00MEGA BEDOdelettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15137532186353901242noreply@blogger.comBlogger778125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807362369669146251.post-8135246726137634062024-02-23T12:13:00.015-05:002024-02-23T13:50:41.503-05:00WikiLeaks Logo<div style="text-align: left;">time is the solvent in which <br />truth is extracted</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">the mountains are blue today</div><div style="text-align: left;">last night I wanted to climb out of me</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I took an extra pill and listened to </div><div style="text-align: left;">a bird documentary from under the covers</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">images from mountain tops</div><div style="text-align: left;">over the city of Los Angeles</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">to invoke radio broadcasting</div><div style="text-align: left;">it's not fair to me, that open window</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">feeling I desire so desperately</div><div style="text-align: left;">when I hear a harp or a chime</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">hot with a breeze</div><div style="text-align: left;">just the wind and I</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">stone me with precious stones</div><div style="text-align: left;">sometimes I want that too</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>what made you glitter?</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>nothing, there's nothing to be taken from me</i></div>Odelettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15137532186353901242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807362369669146251.post-70724430383860397542024-02-19T13:19:00.016-05:002024-02-21T18:24:07.816-05:00<div>Darkest purple leaves on the jasmine vine<br />Stomach on the fritz because wine last night<br /></div><div><div>I kept thinking on the table</div><div>that she was communicating with my body in a language I don't know</div><div>that she could translate between us, my body and myself</div><div>and I felt different characters pass through me who I was too</div><div>I felt that them wanting to be someone else </div><div>and I that I could help them </div>White flower that doesn’t smell like it looks in my pocket<br />Wind in my hair in the parking lot<br />Laying down on the cement</div><div>Laying down in the wellness room </div><div>She said she doesn't feel like we always connect</div><div>did a gesture to mean just scratching my surface</div><div>I can't help the buffers I create </div><div>She can't either and knows it</div><div>I can walk back to my desk</div><div>with my eyes entirely closed</div><div>I've got a feeling</div><div>and it's walking</div><div>warping*</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Odelettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15137532186353901242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807362369669146251.post-62097828088317122992024-02-15T13:07:00.019-05:002024-02-19T12:47:07.027-05:00Feb 14<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: left;">it rained all night <br />now there is so much <br />real or mechanical bird song<br />spiral in my arms <br />if we could just be here<br />my wires pulsing <br />real or mechanical birdsong <br />I’m older but younger now<br />I wish that for everyone<br />I shower in the morning and use both <br />the dove and the rose spray<br />and the musk <br />both real and unreal scented <br />bionic eye disks to see the mountains <br />seeing the mountains keeps me sane<br />just coffee and silver cigarettes before noon<br />just 15 minutes of sunshine<br />but the fields billow and the real<br />or mechanical birds sing<br />the mosquito hawks propagate<br />rising up from the grass at me in pairs<br />floating through the chain link<br /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p></p>Odelettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15137532186353901242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807362369669146251.post-83547019817525235252024-02-12T19:22:00.028-05:002024-02-14T16:14:36.264-05:00a.t.p.2<div style="text-align: left;">I don't fit at my desk</div><div style="text-align: left;">struggling with where my hands go</div><div style="text-align: left;">each task I take on</div><div style="text-align: left;">is slicing up the time</div><div style="text-align: left;">trying to fit into an outline </div><div style="text-align: left;">just in front and to the right of me</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>they said there was no future</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>but after all we're in it </i></div><div style="text-align: left;">in it together</div><div style="text-align: left;">after all I know now</div><div style="text-align: left;">I was bitten by angels</div><div style="text-align: left;">when I feel limited</div><div style="text-align: left;">I think of the point you make</div><div style="text-align: left;">of gathering sunlight</div><div style="text-align: left;">of keeping the windows wide </div><div style="text-align: left;">of batting cages and</div><div style="text-align: left;">upside-down cake</div><div style="text-align: left;">to be in your car</div><div style="text-align: left;">really feeling the road </div><div style="text-align: left;">sunlight overarching</div><div style="text-align: left;">two spot rainbows</div><div style="text-align: left;">on either side of the sky</div><div style="text-align: left;">I'm happy thinking about </div><div style="text-align: left;">us each looping the new song</div><div style="text-align: left;">remotely, respectively</div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><i>life is</i></div><div><i>it's never what you think it's for</i></div><div><i>and I can't seem to say it all</i></div></div><div style="text-align: left;">and I have to write or </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div>I'll never know</div><div>I'll never know </div><div>but I have to write</div><div>dream with frosted orange </div><div>glass zippo shaped like one half</div><div>of a butterfly wing</div><div>then my alarm</div><div>goes off and simultaneously</div><div>a map of all my </div><div>relationships spreads out </div><div>in my mind</div><div><br /></div></div>Odelettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15137532186353901242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807362369669146251.post-63083432530834907452024-02-06T17:07:00.023-05:002024-02-09T14:06:45.210-05:00Miracle of the Rose<div style="text-align: left;"><i>they say you have to burn to shine</i></div><div style="text-align: left;">there's one of every type of cloud in the sky</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the truth is like a stray angel</i></div><div style="text-align: left;">he thought it was a bird tattooed on his chest</div><div style="text-align: left;"><div>but it was a woman's face with hair spread out like wings</div><div><br /></div><div><i>this allegedly dead world sleeps unrestingly</i></div><div><div>do I prefer akathisia</div><div>or sleep paralysis</div></div><div><div>every day just sort of cracks</div><div>all these songs without words</div></div><div>walk to 218 Younglove for lower blood pressure </div><div><br /></div><div>excavating the past in my phone photos</div><div>love made and unmade</div><div>the feeling of motion in my limbs </div><div>it will make me overshoot my efforts </div><div>I’ve dropped the cake before I pick it up</div><div>the gravity and grace of it all</div></div>Odelettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15137532186353901242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807362369669146251.post-62971882680368197882024-01-30T18:02:00.005-05:002024-01-31T13:03:42.111-05:00ford ranger<div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">taking pictures with my eyes</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">
the soft blue and yellow sky<br /></span><span style="color: black;">
the cypress and oak<br /></span><span style="color: black;">
the green fields and the red fields<br /></span><span style="color: black;">
the way the white truck looks </span></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">like a hotwheels from here </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">flip off the flag with
one blue stripe waving<br /></span><span style="color: black;">
in front of a house covered by a red and black </span><span style="color: black;">striped </span><span style="color: black;">termite tent<br /> </span><span style="color: black;">thoughts multiplying like needles in a haystack<br /></span><span style="color: black;">
peas under a mattress<br /></span><span style="color: black;">
when he plays dead </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">face down in the center of the bed<br /> </span><span style="color: black;">
when he goes mute<br /> </span><span style="color: black;">
& i roll him over to pull off his clothes </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">driving south is like driving
back in time<br /></span><span style="color: black;">
the hand painted signs multiply<br /></span><span style="color: black;">
memories careen off the path/past<br /></span><span style="color: black;">
flip off the mission bells<br /></span><span style="color: black;">
a hitchhiker standing still </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">like a statue </span><span style="color: black;">with his legs crossed<br /></span><span style="color: black;">
the time I picked up a hitcher in king city<br /></span><span style="color: black;">
who smoked meth in my car </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">the ferdinands in the field<br /></span><span style="color: black;">
sun glinting off their horns</span></span></div></div>Odelettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15137532186353901242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807362369669146251.post-27975147910702392942024-01-26T00:00:00.006-05:002024-01-26T18:58:11.306-05:00smoke letters<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">my feelings for music</div><div style="text-align: left;">the way the cattails glow </div><div style="text-align: left;">at eye level across the field</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">the chiaroscuro after the rain</div><div style="text-align: left;">between me and the mountains</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">lately flashbacks bringing me </div><div style="text-align: left;">not just back to 1 parallel place</div><div style="text-align: left;">but 2 or 3 in quick succession</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">maybe as to illustrate</div><div style="text-align: left;">how little the present knows</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Odelettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15137532186353901242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807362369669146251.post-46273070366126372752024-01-18T20:05:00.005-05:002024-01-22T14:25:04.518-05:00capture:<div style="text-align: left;">speckled black and white pets</div><div style="text-align: left;">with red bows on their necks </div><div style="text-align: left;">and a black and white ball</div><div style="text-align: left;">that color palette</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">that edible pink sky</div><div style="text-align: left;">the basic human condition</div><div style="text-align: left;">of being plural while walking </div><div style="text-align: left;">looking at backlit glass waves</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div>pink panther drawn in paint pen </div><div style="text-align: left;">on the exterior storefront window glass</div><div style="text-align: left;">so he walks in the painting of blue magnolias</div><div style="text-align: left;">leaning dusty in the window right behind</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">a song like the segment </div><div style="text-align: left;">in Fantasia when the fairy is</div><div style="text-align: left;">touching the landscape</div><div style="text-align: left;">and covering it with sparkling frost</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">desperation and desire</div><div style="text-align: left;">visions of things I want to paint</div><div style="text-align: left;">sitting just outside of me</div><div style="text-align: left;">over there out of reach</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mQqbnMSm2aQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="mQqbnMSm2aQ"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Odelettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15137532186353901242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807362369669146251.post-75630827967965411502024-01-16T19:43:00.000-05:002024-01-16T19:43:53.133-05:00sw<div style="text-align: left;"><b>gravity & grace</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">1</div><div style="text-align: left;">easier to stand in line for an egg</div><div style="text-align: left;">than to save a human life</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">base motives have in them </div><div style="text-align: left;">more energy than noble ones</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">the faculty of feeding on light</div><div style="text-align: left;">my meat is to do the will of him that sent me</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">wings raised to the second power</div><div style="text-align: left;">can make things come down without weight</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">moral gravity</div><div style="text-align: left;">makes us fall to the heights</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">2</div><div style="text-align: left;">may I never sully anything</div><div style="text-align: left;">though I be utterly transformed into mud</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">to harm a person</div><div style="text-align: left;">is to receive something from them</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">heaven helps those</div><div style="text-align: left;">who help themselves</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">even if we kill or torture our enemy</div><div style="text-align: left;">it is still in a sense imaginary</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">a beloved being who disappoints me</div><div style="text-align: left;">I wrote to him, it is impossible that he should not reply</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">by saying what I have said to myself</div><div style="text-align: left;">in his name</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">men owe us what we imagine they give us</div><div style="text-align: left;">we must forgive this debt</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I also am other than what I imagine myself to be</div><div style="text-align: left;">to know this is forgiveness</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">4</div><div style="text-align: left;">extinguish, empty desire</div><div style="text-align: left;">desire without any wishes</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">to detach our desire from all good things then to wait</div><div style="text-align: left;">then we touch the absolute good</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">attachment is a manufacturer of illusions</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">5</div><div style="text-align: left;">the imagination, filler of the void</div><div style="text-align: left;">is essentially a liar</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>waiting for god</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">the beauty of the world is the mouth of a labyrinth</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">attempts to eat beauty</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div>this universe where which we are living</div><div>and of which we form a tiny particle</div><div>is the distance put by love between god and god</div><div>we are a point in this distance</div><div><br /></div><div>those we call criminals are only tiles </div><div>blown off a roof by the wind</div><div>and falling at random</div><div><br /></div><div>nailed to the center of the universe</div></div>Odelettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15137532186353901242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807362369669146251.post-72202427734131960692024-01-16T12:36:00.001-05:002024-01-16T12:36:56.378-05:00MRSDWVW<div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i>1</i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>a touch of the bird about her</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>of the jay </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>blue-green, light, vivacious</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>first a warning; musical</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>then the hour; irrevocable</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the leaden circles dissolved in the air</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>can't be dealt with by acts of parliament</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>for that very reason</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>they love life</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>2</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>because it was silly to have other reasons</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>for doing things</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>half the time she did things not simply</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>not for themselves </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>but to make people think this or that</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>perfect idiocy</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>one roll of tweed</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>a few pearls</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>salmon on an ice block</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>that is all</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>a lady is known</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>by her shoes and her gloves</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the moment between 6 and 7</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>when every flower </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>glows</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>every flower seems to burn by itself</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><i>the world has raised its whip</i></div><div><i>where will it descend?</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>a square of dove gray</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>this gradual drawing together of everything</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>to one center before his eyes </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>terrified him</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>3 </b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>sifting the ruins of time</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>when London is a grass grown path</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>and all those hurrying along the pavement this Wednesday</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>are but bones with a few wedding rings mixed up in their dust</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>a single voice</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>expanded and made sonorous</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>by the might of a whole cathedral</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>thought of the housemaids</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the innumerable housemaids</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the bedrooms</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the innumerable bedrooms</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>white smoke actually writing something</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>making letters in the sky</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>standing and looking up into the sky</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>bells struck 11 times</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>tears filled his eyes as he looked at the smoke words</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>languishing and melting in the sky</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>bestowing upon him in their inexhaustible charity and laughing goodness</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>one shape after another</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>of unimaginable beauty</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>for nothing</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>for ever </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>for looking merely</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>with beauty</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>it was toffy</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>they were advertising toffy</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>plumes on horses heads</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>feathers on ladies</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>would have sent him mad</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>but he would not go mad</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>4</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>part of the pattern</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>sounds made harmonies with premeditation</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the spaces between them were as significant as the sounds</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>all taken together it meant the birth of a new religion</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>men must not cut down trees</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>there is a god</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>there is no death</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>look look</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>notice real things</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>he must not talk aloud </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>to himself out of doors</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>eating drinking and mating</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the bad days and good</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>seeking and questing</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>and knocking of words together</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>5</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>gilded her own future with calm</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>grinding blowing flowering of the day</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>narrower and narrower would her bed be</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>something warm that broke up surfaces</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>she could not resist sometimes yielding to the charm of a woman</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>faint scent or a violin next door</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>so strange is the power of some sounds at certain moments</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>she did undoubtedly feel what men felt</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>6</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the purity</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the integrity</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>doing her hair in a kind of ecstasy </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>now the old feelings began to come back to her</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>as she took out her hairpins</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>laid them on the dressing table</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>began to do her hair</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>one woman who sat in her drawing room </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>and made a meeting point</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>far away barking and barking</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i>8</i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>she still had the power </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>to make the moon rise on the terrace </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>9</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>it was smashed to atoms</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>his fun </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>for it was half made up as he knew very well</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>made up as one makes up the better part of life</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>making oneself up</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>making her up</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>odd it was and quite true</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>all this one could never share</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>it's smashed to atoms</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>a great brush swept smooth against his mind</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>down down he sank into the plumes and feathers of sleep</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>nothing exists outside us except a state of mind</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>10</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the death of the soul</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the words attached themselves </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>to </i><i>some scene some room some past he had been dreaming of</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>it all seemed useless</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>going on being in love</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>going on quarreling</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>going on making it up</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>11</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>still the sun was hot</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>still one got over things</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>12</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>good days bad days</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>for no reason whatever</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>13</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>jealousy which survives every other passion of mankind</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>once in some primeval May she had walked with her lover</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the bright petalled flowers were hoar and silver frosted</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>14</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>it was a silly silly dream </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>being unhappy</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the happiest man in the world</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>and the most miserable</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>he could not feel</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>it might be possible </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>that the world itself is without meaning</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>that boy's business of the intoxication of language</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>how Shakespeare loathed humanity</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the message hidden in the beauty of words</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>15</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>plastered over with grimaces</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>his wife was crying and he felt nothing</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>once you stumble</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>human nature is on you</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>food was pleasant</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the sun hot</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>12 o'clock</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the leaden circles dissolved in the air</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>16</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>he never spoke of madness</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>he called it, "not having a sense of proportion"</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>love</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>trees</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>there is no crime</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>this exacting science</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>which has to do with what</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>after all, </i><i>we know nothing about</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>worshipping proportion</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>penalizing despair</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>prophetic Christs and Christesses</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>17</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>shredding and slicing</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>dividing and subdividing</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the clocks nibbled at the June day</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the table spreads itself voluntarily</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>with glass and silver</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>18</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>drowsy and heavy</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>like a field of clover in the sunshine</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>and they went further and further from her</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>being attached to her by a thin thread</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>that would stretch and stretch</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>get thinner and thinner </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>as they walked across London</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>as if one's friends were attached to one's body</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>by a thin thread</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>which as she dosed became hazy with the sound of bells</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>striking the hour or ringing to service</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>as a single spider's thread is blotted with raindrops</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>and burdened, sags down</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>19</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>first the warning, musical</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>then the hour, irrevocable</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i> but why did she suddenly feel</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>for no reason she could discover</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>desperately unhappy?</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>what she liked was simply life</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>an offering for the sake of offering</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>could not think</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>write </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>even play the piano</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>talked oceans of nonsense</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>20</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>instead of lying on a sofa</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>she should have been in a factory</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>behind a counter</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>21</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>all the commodities of the world</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>perishable and permanent</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>a soul cut out of immaterial substance</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>not a woman, a soul</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>people were beginning to compare her to poplar trees</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>early dawn</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>hyacinths, fawns, running water, and garden lilies </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>22</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the trees dragged their leaves </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>like nets through the depths of the air</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>24</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>life was good</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the sun hot</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>it seemed to her as she drank the sweet stuff</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>that she was opening long windows</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>stepping out into some garden</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>I have that in me</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>which could now dissolve in tears</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>why heaven knows</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>beauty of some sort probably</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>and the weight of the day</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the drip drip of one impression after another</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>a moment in which things came together</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>this ambulance and life and death</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>a theory heaps of theories</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>she felt herself everywhere</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>not here here here </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>but everywhere</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>to know her or anyone </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>one must seek out the people that completed them</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>even the places</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>our apparitions</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the part of us which appears</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>are so momentary </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>compared with the other</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the unseen part of us</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>which spreads wide</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the unseen might survive</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>be recovered somehow</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>attached to this person or that</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>or even haunting certain places after death</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>perhaps</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>perhaps</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i>26</i></b> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the day changed</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>shed dust heat color</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>I resign the evening seemed to say</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>I fade</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>I disappear </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>this interminable life</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>here he was </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>starting to go to a party</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>with the belief upon him that he was about to have an experience</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>but what?</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>beauty anyhow</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>straightness and emptiness</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the symmetry of a corridor</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>everybody was going out</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the cold stream of visual impressions failed him now</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>as if the eye were a cup that overflowed</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>29</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>in the middle of my party</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>here's death</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the terror</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the overwhelming incapacity</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>one's parents giving it into one's hands</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>this life</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>to be lived to the end</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>to be walked with serenely</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>there was in the depths of her heart</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>an immeasurable fear</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>a dusky sky<br />turning away its cheek in beauty</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the clock began striking</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the young man had killed himself</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>but she did not pity him</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>with the clock striking the hour</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>1 2 3</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>she did not pity him</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>with all this going on</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>fear no more the heat of the sun</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>she felt somehow very like him</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the young man who had killed himself</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>she felt glad that he had done it</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>thrown it away</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the clock was striking</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>the leaden circles dissolved in the air</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>he made her feel the beauty</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>made her feel the fun</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>30</b><br />indeed the young are beautiful</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>she was like a lily</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>a lily by the side of a pool</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>one could watch</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>one could understand</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>and one did not lose the power of feeling</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>it increased</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>it went on increasing</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>what does the brain matter</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>compared to the heart?</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>what is this terror?</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>what is this ecstasy? </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Odelettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15137532186353901242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807362369669146251.post-10346300225429006192023-12-26T20:04:00.380-05:002024-01-03T16:05:53.125-05:00oct - dec<div>lost contact with my dreams</div><div>tall apartment/ vertical shopping mall Chinese signage </div><div>all the images I cut out from National Geographic</div><div>raspberry jam on toast again</div><div>everything from that store tastes like that store</div><div>he doesn't know but refrains <i>I'll figure it out</i></div><div>I was just liking the cutting </div><div>lost in the cutting so </div><div>I had nothing to say</div><div><br /></div><div>a translucent snail emerged from the tiny white shell </div><div>days after M brought it home from Greece</div><div>she feeds it cucumber and eggshells</div><div><br /></div><div>there are only 5 places to go here</div><div>try to notice things</div><div>the sunset on the way home</div><div>October light, definitely different</div><div>definitely shifted</div><div>me, the clone of my mother</div><div>sharing my tiny bed with her</div><div>the two of us reading side by side</div><div>the two of us sleeping</div><div><br /></div><div>strip mall on a mountain</div><div>in a bathtub at one point but </div><div>I could see beyond the walls </div><div>of the space in my mind's eye/</div><div>was in two places at once</div><div>woke up with the headache I had in the dream </div><div>wearing a red gingham jacket</div><div>my hair long again</div><div>there was rain and other obstacles</div><div>like no money? or just darkness?</div><div><br /></div><div>working in a new restaurant that was hidden </div><div>in some sort of subway system but had a giant dome</div><div>restaurant inside an unbroken eggshell</div><div>trying to figure out what to do about the swings</div><div>hanging from the curved ceiling </div><div>hitting the tables when they swung</div><div>something shady about the owner</div><div>I was concerned the room was too big to fill</div><div>these days a continuum </div><div>like waking life isn't enough</div><div>to take away dream solidity </div><div>pieces come to me and </div><div>I can't even distinguish them as such</div><div><br /></div><div>I ran out of potions and have to pick up more today</div><div>I want to be stronger and more sparkly for everyone</div><div>pearls around the window</div><div>sunset in the letters</div><div>you send just an orange heart</div><div>sensed I was thinking about you?</div><div>I want to be big and sparkly for you</div><div>I want to be the one you call</div><div><br /></div><div>15 days of war on Palestine</div><div>screen time average nearly 4 hours a day somehow</div><div>we were in a band and had a metal shelf between us </div><div>that held up our cigarettes and also water dripped from the shelf </div><div>and when it fell it sounded like violins </div><div>the shelf with the smokes and water dropping was our instrument</div><div>and I was playing a simple riff on a red electric guitar</div><div>wearing a very little dress</div><div>we were practicing and it was going well then it was abruptly </div><div>the actual performance and we got out of synch </div><div>and couldn't get through our set everyone cleared the room </div><div>so we took our half smoked cigarettes outside</div><div><br /></div><div>finally got ahold of you</div><div>followed gravity downtown while we talked </div><div>on damp streets the rain had stopped but it was misting</div><div>wish I had ideas in my head</div><div><br /></div><div>everything on guitar is sounding the same to me</div><div>how to push through and trust again? play?</div><div>or did I ever trust? hard to say</div><div>remember crying in frustration on the farm</div><div><br /></div><div>tiny deer standing on my bed</div><div>it was smaller than a cat</div><div>looked like a doll/ toy I sang to it while petting it</div><div>and walked around it in circles filming</div><div>something happened to the tiny deer</div><div>I saw images of butchered meat but</div><div>not fully real mostly imagined </div><div>I found just her collar which was patent leather</div><div>bright red with metal grommets </div><div>I was in a bathrobe</div><div>it was all an art piece?</div><div>at night in my bed I think about Gazans</div><div>trying to sleep waiting for bombs</div><div><br /></div><div>a music class with keyboard </div><div>and songbook and time to practice</div><div>looking for the key that will unlock </div><div>whatever the next thing to get me going will be</div><div>an entry point to the world</div><div>some way to stay in it</div><div><br /></div><div>Chinatown walking around</div><div>buying egg custard and metallic purple Beatle boots</div><div>with two dogs, a giant wolf and a mini wolf</div><div>steps down to the beach at the end of University Ave in Berkeley</div><div>the waves crashing so high</div><div>covering the entire beach and all the way up to the cliffs</div><div>the rest is very slippery</div><div>very very slippery</div><div><i>resistance fighters broke out of Gaza</i></div><div><i>into an "ugly modern world"</i></div><div><i>with wide avenues </i><i>and bars with lights on</i></div><div><br /></div><div>how many things can I do every day?</div><div>war dreams, separated, all alone, distance and death</div><div>dilapidated structures</div><div>I was raising a child alone</div><div>I was applying black and white temporary tattoos to my stomach</div><div>a masked face of a friend</div><div>layered tattoos on my stomach to express my love</div><div>but feeling so alone</div><div>barred from tenderness by war</div><div><br /></div><div>thinking about how walking used </div><div>to feel in my hometown</div><div>thinking about how reading used to feel </div><div>in the dark winter on a humming train</div><div>in the segment of tunnel under the bay</div><div>between Oakland and SF </div><div>Nijinsky's diary</div><div>how writing used to feel in my hometown</div><div><br /></div><div>I work in an office building surrounded </div><div>by empty industrial fields of grasses and cattails </div><div>and crows and from certain windows you can see the ocean</div><div><br /></div><div>in my dreams I am bleeding</div><div>I am walking to get something to eat in a Japanese structure</div><div>summer camp pagoda bridge over a dry riverbed</div><div>groups divided up of people with bottles </div><div>of champagne with beautiful labels</div><div>holographic red and pink photo of cherry/logo/star</div><div>there is a porridge with icicle covered candy in it</div><div>I am showing you a secret trail I know about</div><div>I am making memories in here</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Odelettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15137532186353901242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807362369669146251.post-78572748255252312582023-12-11T18:23:00.010-05:002023-12-14T14:58:19.324-05:00bitten by angels<div style="text-align: left;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDIYxMjyatSwD6qR04_NNkmEhfLgNxsjyMqfc6KagPl5E8mUMrUE2Ir-E4mTfVlDuqe0-9Gka7CXKQVtaEcNHuKpcbzw-DR4dBaH2IGIazkPkPa5rVGfSRXMD6ejjGkEgWDYyHrOiKSp0yfrZaSIkCG-zmc6Ja_gZ_w30AQMNbiLiY9ngavOX6CH3Vbpdz" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="279" data-original-width="658" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDIYxMjyatSwD6qR04_NNkmEhfLgNxsjyMqfc6KagPl5E8mUMrUE2Ir-E4mTfVlDuqe0-9Gka7CXKQVtaEcNHuKpcbzw-DR4dBaH2IGIazkPkPa5rVGfSRXMD6ejjGkEgWDYyHrOiKSp0yfrZaSIkCG-zmc6Ja_gZ_w30AQMNbiLiY9ngavOX6CH3Vbpdz=w400-h170" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">my pills do my sleeping for me</div><div style="text-align: left;">our love is growing up</div><div style="text-align: left;">a dial tone deep in my ear</div><div style="text-align: left;"><div>who is the god that lets the leaflets fall</div><div>I want to be stronger than the office building</div><div>the proper name of god is a list</div><div>don't forget to move your hands to reach the notes</div><div>don't forget backwards music</div><div>set up the dripping laptop at the desk</div><div>and leave it open to capture</div></div>Odelettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15137532186353901242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807362369669146251.post-21224175986876585612023-12-06T20:02:00.004-05:002023-12-14T14:57:39.092-05:0060 days<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi60jn7_ujBcOR8IQV9eHtyVugXcKlo0uESJCloMT638Oj-ZAX3Ze5yWpeQhHY4vm7IXrGbKq2VT2pCbbLxCSS3flXi8gE1j1M4DpM-mkgZAkEh5_0-5WbnjgJ1dHJD4WR5OsACjoM9l9kWy53g14QV-0uwihvSUF1fqhcIgFcoBAm4H4FsKbaiikyMDU3O" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" data-original-height="327" data-original-width="703" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi60jn7_ujBcOR8IQV9eHtyVugXcKlo0uESJCloMT638Oj-ZAX3Ze5yWpeQhHY4vm7IXrGbKq2VT2pCbbLxCSS3flXi8gE1j1M4DpM-mkgZAkEh5_0-5WbnjgJ1dHJD4WR5OsACjoM9l9kWy53g14QV-0uwihvSUF1fqhcIgFcoBAm4H4FsKbaiikyMDU3O=w400-h186" width="400" /></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">realism brandished</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">as a weapon against meaning</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">something warm</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">that breaks up surfaces</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>vigorous, unending</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>my future</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>Odelettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15137532186353901242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807362369669146251.post-55135651244771955732023-10-23T16:49:00.003-04:002023-10-30T14:44:41.273-04:00/ˈlakrəˌmōs/<div style="text-align: left;"><div>the design of the pelican which has </div><div>remained largely unchanged for 30,000 years</div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>the cruelty of the world was tranquil</i></div><div><i>the murder was deep</i></div><div><div><br /></div><div>attempting to fill my head with </div><div>things of beauty and value</div></div><div><br /></div><div>imagine leaflets falling from the sky</div><div>but at birth I was bitten by angels</div><div><br /></div></div><div>I'm afraid when my alarm </div><div>goes off in the morning</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Odelettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15137532186353901242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807362369669146251.post-87852933422259344402023-10-04T11:26:00.007-04:002023-10-04T11:26:46.589-04:00irresistible experience <p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">dream of seeing you in your life</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">dream that everyone looked old</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">dream that we congratulated each other</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">guess who’s opening their heart<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">guess who</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">is opening their heart</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">there was a crescent moon tonight made of paper</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">a digital sky</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">a dream that privacy felt scarce</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">dream i had time to bring my hitachi</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">but dream i was at your party too late looking for containers</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">to bring everyone home and</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">dream my identity was impossible to conceal so</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />i choose you<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">as my archivist</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and you, my archeologist</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">excavate my photo booth</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and faithfully, wash the gossip</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">dream we did it together when</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">a pure bold longing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">to be gone filled him</span></i></p><p class="p3" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i></i><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and i said dream! it has filled me too</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">but it has<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">filled me too</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and i spilled that it’s my last life</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">spilled it’s my last life all over your bed</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">as my conscious and un- met in one horizon</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">one horizon bobbing and blue<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and you wept, for what?</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">but, i said, i just wanna fuck<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and dream no one is home</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">i just wanna fuck because</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">i can love you from there</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">guess who<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">can love you from there </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p>Dustyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13158464448616196111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807362369669146251.post-49781840072534573832023-10-04T11:25:00.006-04:002023-10-04T11:25:30.135-04:00fortify me<p><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">don’t 11th hour me,</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">fortify me!</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the easy slippage</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">of You—</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(god)</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">all of you, with your milks</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">fortify me, bones, let me<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">sign your constitution<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">tour me around<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">your reality</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">walk me down the road and up the hill</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">bring me back to the staring sheep</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">churn to fuel the painfully simple</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and draw my shadow with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">confidence in the sun</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">don’t 11th hour me, convect me!</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">don’t let my dread whittle to an edge<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">don’t let my obsession get so smooth<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">waterproof my pants in the machine</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">kiss me like, like<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I kiss you</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">let me play in the alphabet soup!</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">let me find language in the drain!</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and on occasion,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">save me a slice of joy from the spreadsheet<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p>Dustyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13158464448616196111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807362369669146251.post-86506221946472253312023-10-04T11:22:00.002-04:002023-10-04T11:22:30.343-04:00(Pleasure) Poem 1<p><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">must be</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">systemless</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the circuit itself tired<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">a sound sculptural shell</span></p><p class="p3" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">who am I? to love</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the mountain hanging over me</span></p><p class="p3" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">to drink its snow</span></p><p class="p3" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">she says <i>deserve<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>dear god,</span></p><p class="p3" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">as long as i’m evicted from myself</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">make me a silver ray of light</span></p><p class="p3" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">make me finish the body scan</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">make it all right side out</span></p><p class="p3" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">quitting the whole time til <i>thighs</i></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i></i><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">my<i> </i>nerves as pants no socks<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">mocked by the waterfalls <span class="s1" style="color: #4c4c4c;">I lay<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p4" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">on you in easy gratitude for your<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p4" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">bones, hold your feet<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p4" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">in my hands</span></p><p class="p4" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p4" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p4" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>Dustyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13158464448616196111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807362369669146251.post-27261508873615307172023-09-29T16:09:00.003-04:002023-09-29T16:19:09.234-04:0055 n 11th st<div>at Brighton beach </div><div>swimming towards the moving buoy </div><div><br /></div><div>we're definitely a piece</div><div>but we're only a part</div><div><br /></div><div><div>watching our progress through Cherry Hill on Google maps </div><div>passing the liquor stores that line the turnpike</div><div> </div><div>going back on my word here I am</div></div><div>wanting to invoke Banana Ice</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Odelettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15137532186353901242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807362369669146251.post-33577636348420952422023-09-06T16:52:00.001-04:002023-09-15T18:41:44.541-04:00 honeying malice<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span face="Roboto, sans-serif"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span face="Roboto, sans-serif"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span face="Roboto, sans-serif"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span face="Roboto, sans-serif"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span face="Roboto, sans-serif">a</span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif"> brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>rings for your fingers a drink for your heart</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Odelettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15137532186353901242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807362369669146251.post-72884942007086627272023-08-25T20:58:00.005-04:002023-09-13T12:55:40.108-04:00it was a nun they say invented barbed wire<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">again pepper's ghost</span></div><div style="text-align: left;">advanced <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akashic_records" target="_blank">technology</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>folded away in the memory </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>of nature with her toys</i></div><div style="text-align: left;">at work listening to Ulysses </div><div style="text-align: left;">A LibriVox Recording</div><div style="text-align: left;">I'm falling back into Joyceland</div><div style="text-align: left;">my strange addiction </div><div style="text-align: left;">I'm so superstitious </div><div style="text-align: left;">everything a breadcrumb </div><div style="text-align: left;">and then a packet in today's </div><div style="text-align: left;">post from a lawyer </div><div style="text-align: left;">who shares your first name </div><div style="text-align: left;">which in Iran is maybe </div><div style="text-align: left;">very common but to me </div><div style="text-align: left;">it's only yours</div><div style="text-align: left;">as I scan the packet I think </div><div style="text-align: left;">or think I ought to think </div><div style="text-align: left;">that no matter how in agreement</div><div style="text-align: left;">two people are and no matter </div><div style="text-align: left;">how intent they are to try </div><div style="text-align: left;">it's dumb to think of love as possess-able</div><div style="text-align: left;">it just won't be possessed</div><div style="text-align: left;">but the way he jumps like a cat</div><div style="text-align: left;">to keep the balloon off the ground</div><div style="text-align: left;">the way he climbs his roof to sweep </div><div style="text-align: left;">the redwood needles from the corrugated </div><div style="text-align: left;">plastic skylight the way he touches my back</div><div style="text-align: left;">as I wash my face in the meantime</div><div style="text-align: left;">the cubicle the mail room</div><div style="text-align: left;">the printer room the inbox </div><div style="text-align: left;">it’s a lot of alone</div><div style="text-align: left;">I think this life the runaway train</div><div style="text-align: left;">can only be slowed by obsession </div><div style="text-align: left;">full immersion full absorption with detail</div><div style="text-align: left;">like the scientists on the radio</div><div style="text-align: left;">today one says humans when egged into </div><div style="text-align: left;">existential dread or fear of mortality</div><div style="text-align: left;">are more comforted by a story of </div><div style="text-align: left;">our uniqueness as individuals than</div><div style="text-align: left;">a story of solidarity with all animals</div><div style="text-align: left;">but if we’re told animals are special too</div><div style="text-align: left;">we feel better or something like that</div><div style="text-align: left;">or we are driven to compassion perhaps</div><div style="text-align: left;">I want to know the set up for these experiments</div><div style="text-align: left;">what they use to prompt the dread</div><div style="text-align: left;">then how they take it away</div><div style="text-align: left;">rare and mythic vs senseless thrum</div><div style="text-align: left;">insufferable Anais Nin says </div><div style="text-align: left;">she loves her nightmares</div><div style="text-align: left;">that she doesn’t understand why Henry </div><div style="text-align: left;">is trying to be a philosopher that philosophers </div><div style="text-align: left;">are merely preparing for death </div><div style="text-align: left;">classicists are dying as they try to dominate life</div><div style="text-align: left;">with philosophy while romantics are living it</div><div style="text-align: left;">but still, how to be big enough</div><div style="text-align: left;">when what scares me is so simple</div><div style="text-align: left;">inertia and irreverence</div><div style="text-align: left;">not caring when I should </div><div style="text-align: left;">slipping backstage to just</div><div style="text-align: left;">project my hologram off of a mirror</div><div style="text-align: left;">and then eventually just </div><div style="text-align: left;">leaving a statue in my place </div><div style="text-align: left;">to do the reflecting</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div>Odelettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15137532186353901242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807362369669146251.post-87951497716269273442023-08-23T20:12:00.003-04:002023-08-23T20:12:31.599-04:00soul shoppe<div>between birth and death</div><div>between eight and noon</div><div>between noon and one</div><div>between one and five</div><div>yes, the office could be </div><div>described as "climate-</div><div>controlled" my back</div><div>to the windows where </div><div>the day morphs without </div><div>me in it a silent time-lapse</div><div>the cleanliness of it all</div><div>how I've been cut and</div><div>pasted into this cubicle</div>Odelettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15137532186353901242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807362369669146251.post-81403420340755835172023-08-22T15:16:00.007-04:002023-08-22T16:17:30.088-04:00red fleur<div style="text-align: left;">between birth and death we get lost for a while</div><div style="text-align: left;">in the corner market across from the beach </div><div style="text-align: left;">there is a very cheap perfume in a dusty box on a low shelf</div><div style="text-align: left;">I'm trying to wiggle the bottle out to take a photo </div><div style="text-align: left;">but I keep pulling just the top off which is clear red plastic </div><div style="text-align: left;">shaped like a flower and the bottle itself drops back into the box </div><div style="text-align: left;">I don't want to make a scene so I just peer in and can see </div><div style="text-align: left;">the liquid is also red and I wonder which no. dye</div>Odelettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15137532186353901242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807362369669146251.post-60878188130018917062023-08-21T16:16:00.002-04:002023-08-22T15:18:19.893-04:00normal<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>it's a little too normal I'm trying to think </div><div>beautiful thoughts between noon and one</div><div>debating phone calls / walks / purchases</div><div>to make but don't choose any in time </div>Odelettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15137532186353901242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807362369669146251.post-60248078555508089382023-08-18T19:58:00.002-04:002023-08-18T19:58:50.799-04:00~?<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I stomp on the parking break and don't push the door open far enough </div><div style="text-align: left;">for it to not start to close on me</div><div style="text-align: left;">I put my left foot on the curb and look up at a v of geese</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">trusting desire the desire for some language over the curve of a moment</div><div style="text-align: left;">my self the marble rolls off the table again and keeps going</div><div style="text-align: left;">why do I get stuck sideways this bad attitude</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">another school dream an auditorium but where the stage would be is a wall of aquarium glass</div><div style="text-align: left;">and the ocean directly against it and the type of seahorses that look like seaweed but the size of dolphins</div><div style="text-align: left;">we can't leave the school because the ocean is rising so rapidly</div>Odelettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15137532186353901242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807362369669146251.post-32400039038384061712023-08-17T19:09:00.003-04:002023-08-17T19:09:26.909-04:00********** * * * * * * *th<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">what happens when you're bitten by angels</div><div style="text-align: left;">my life went nowhere but my hair grew very long</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div>Odelettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15137532186353901242noreply@blogger.com