a bleeding heart is an open one
don't lean on the bark
of these words
and wait for the sap to drip out
"there are many kinds of open"
---
sometimes we absorb all the dings and stings we cannot stop
that we forget all the wings and zings we can start.
---
a yesterday ghost body raps on today's door:
trespasser fiend
no who-body gave you
entry permission
viewing admission
to vomit judgments
on my flower welcome mat
purchased yesterday.
leave your loathing
and no-good nothing
residue and charcoal breath
to smoke and mirror
somebody else
---
i was born
encouraged to believe like
a human is to breathe.
(one in and one out at a time,
on an infinite and unknown repeat)
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
March 20
St. Louis, Central time, 10:24 but even that is 10 minutes ahead.
Wainrights on youtube song length clips and then remembering Marge Piercy "To Have Without Holding" for anyone who has loved, who loves, who wants to love.
Things are different after a crash.
It is an, all of a sudden, focus on the damage the need the remains. Who can be saved what can be salvaged. It is 11:40 central time. Time does keep ticking fast. Without something to invoke perspective life can be an increasingly narrowing blur of "me, me, me, me, my, I, mine, my, me, me, me."
How can it be that it does not require a trajedy, a travesty, a trauma to make one think twice. To find the gratitude. To find more than the lesson but to put it into practice and feel the growth.
Wainrights on youtube song length clips and then remembering Marge Piercy "To Have Without Holding" for anyone who has loved, who loves, who wants to love.
Things are different after a crash.
It is an, all of a sudden, focus on the damage the need the remains. Who can be saved what can be salvaged. It is 11:40 central time. Time does keep ticking fast. Without something to invoke perspective life can be an increasingly narrowing blur of "me, me, me, me, my, I, mine, my, me, me, me."
How can it be that it does not require a trajedy, a travesty, a trauma to make one think twice. To find the gratitude. To find more than the lesson but to put it into practice and feel the growth.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
like nothing
young youthful energy
lunge up stairs
speed computer type
read write flip pages no sweat
turn a key, open
a warm home
a car engine running
wheels turning
gasoline burning
working money making
saving
baking treats for parties
making amends
hugging friends
vacation days and dollars spend
walking around a park
in circles before dark
listening to the warnings
reading the news
mind open
put put put piece piece piece
in in in
go go go
careful, stop, slow
can't you hear those keys jangling
information will let you into
this room
on this day
wear this outfit
smile, say this
continue on,
blink as if it is normal
close your eyes if the rat race is too fast pace
and
let it just
whoosh
by
like
it's
no thing
free in the sun and the breeze
lunge up stairs
speed computer type
read write flip pages no sweat
turn a key, open
a warm home
a car engine running
wheels turning
gasoline burning
working money making
saving
baking treats for parties
making amends
hugging friends
vacation days and dollars spend
walking around a park
in circles before dark
listening to the warnings
reading the news
mind open
put put put piece piece piece
in in in
go go go
careful, stop, slow
can't you hear those keys jangling
information will let you into
this room
on this day
wear this outfit
smile, say this
continue on,
blink as if it is normal
close your eyes if the rat race is too fast pace
and
let it just
whoosh
by
like
it's
no thing
free in the sun and the breeze
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