Friday, 31 January 2014

Epitaph


Could today be the day
when I reach into my soul
and pull out a live one?

‘Nay,’ rang the soil
thudding down.

//ends

Thursday, 30 January 2014

tightly wound

             like clockwork

like clockwork they asked

they asked me the way

the way to do things

to do things like clockwork

like clockwork they asked

they asked me the way

the way to do things

to do things like clockwork

like clockwork they asked

they asked me the way

the way to do things

to do things like clockwork

like clockwork they askedlike clockwork they asked

they asked me the way

the way to do things

to do things like clockwork

like clockwork they asked

they asked me the way

the way to do things

to do things like clockwork

like clockwork

//ends

Wednesday, 29 January 2014

School

taught me
the sensible ways to dress, spell, add, write
the sensible ways to research, play, eat, climb
the sensible ways to kiss, laugh, love, hit, colour
the sensible ways to ride the bus

forgot to teach me
no sensible way to contentment

//ends



Sunday, 26 January 2014

Representation

I wrote a little something last night
You read it before I woke
Asked for clarification
Written large, you did not like it
I made a small gesture
You misread

That brings us to now
In limbo
In a circle


//ends

Saturday, 25 January 2014

Portrait of a person who washers

In my mid twenties
I began engraving my name
Ornately around
Three-quarter inch washers

On lonely nights
I open unattended equipment
Machinery and constructions
In deserted public places
Install a washer
Close it up and move on

After nearly two-thousand washers
I decided to engrave my phone number too
No one calls

//ends

Thursday, 9 January 2014

i & ii

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newbe  fde
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newbe   de
  ika  from
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newbde
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new bde
  ikea
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new bed
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new bed
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new bed from ikea

ii


Judging people
in return
at Ikea.

//ends

Wednesday, 8 January 2014

new things

new things
like a stick
in the strawberry mudcake

//ends