OBSERVATION FROM AN OLD NOTEBOOK
I am a rock on the shore of the magnificent ocean millions of years by the magnificent ocean and millions more
(Based on the fact that 95% of household dust is our own skin cel… flakes of me circling in the sunli… bits of you lying on the bureau gather them in a beaker
the darkening hills a triumvirate of crows in the glowing gloom
surf and turf of St. Andrews olde salts and bullshit under one blue tarp gossip thick as molasses sparks quick as match-lit gas
There is an even-handed justice in… No senility forgiven, but caught a… Blood and flesh, bone and marrow To feed the life of another, And back to the earth that gave it…
I have no family to care for my gr… who doesn’t care where I lay… for fourty years after an argument… which of us was bigger? in the course of our lives we bot…
last night the winter world transformed to summer’s sphere fireflies in the night their aimless paths alight
Still they knock at my door And complain About the state of the world Selling fear Like grape Kool Aid
Now that love has died Only silence remains between Two lonely people
seek the council of wild things in… leaves that turn their silver side… before the rain slender reeds that accept and bend they will sew your words abroad
my real name was Clarence but they always called me Dummy because they thought I was stupid I lived with my Mom and swept up… for a dollar a day ‘cause
I’ve known rivers swift currents set free escaping to the brine of the ocean and on to exotic places I’ll never be
Many times, my father, drunk upon… “Spare the rod and spoil the child… Swung his belt and lay the stripes… To cleanse my soul. And I, drunk upon memory and whis…
Snowflakes or fireflies Beneath an oval moon Do I wake or dream?
odd to think of the world without… a frozen corpse in the revolving e… molten lava below cold stars above journeying through the long, wide… unknowing