I was down for a minute had to get served out can’t take what’s mine All the money in The World

I saw him on the side of the road, on the side of the interstate exit… Maybe he was 18, definitely not 21… tired but not yet haggard. The moment I saw him

Needless of a judge, a contrite heart is a bird suspended on a current, shifting myriad planes without asking or telling.

So many things I don’t really care about the mail comes you know it isn’t easy to show that I care

Incense thick with a scent that is true and a bit soiled and dense so dense I lift

The cicada, once with the humility of a barnac… weeping beneath the fern, now screams its inane mantra, which

I’ll give you what I got, I can part with it all. I have gifts— A silk tongue,

The only thing you can prove is how crazy you are. It’s the best defense. Where was I going with this? I don’t know.

There is a most worthy woman, the upper steward of the manor, Obermeyer of Holy Terra, house cute, smokestack simmering,

With certitude was the stove on th… as it always was, warming my feet… next I was on the floor and it flo… and then flashed to a different po… upside down

You can ask to be shown, opened unto a dimension, swirling, sickening realm. But, woe unto thee fleshly being, dare ye enter that perilous gate

Pretend like your hell is the new normal. Now the space is calm, and poignant, and telling.

III Too late to call vagrancy a fad, an experiment. I am too old and still at it. But it isn’t like I am separate

Nirvana is acquittal, wearing sweatpants in an empty cou… drunk, singing songs about the Southland. God has fashioned my heart like a…

Praise those who sit and wait for nothing. Who sit still and know they are owed nothing. On the mat each inhalation