Edifice

After building home -
labored edifice - I, trapped,
yearn to move elsewhere.

Old People Suck

Incumbents in good
jobs. Send back soup. Self-finance
with long-term G-bonds.

The Average Human Life Span Used to Be Forty

How they terrorize
young folks, as if they knew: they,
old, were obsolete.

I Love Sarah Jane

Holy shit! It's violent, poignant, and very sweet.

Nightmare

I had a horrific dream last night that I was decapitated. I was frantically trying to bandage my head back on, walking around and clutching my spewing neck. Then I fell into a bathtub, thrashing in a pool of my own blood. I couldn't get my head back on.

It didn't feel like a dream.

Miscommunication

Whenever I pray
for peace, I fear God might hear
a request for death.

Fellini

I will never find
Trevi nymphs - life from dream. I
must build the sculptures.



I'm drawn to this scene because it gives form to the hope that somewhere, in some time, we might finally find that thing we yearn for and search for: the sweet life. Here, Silvia and the Trevi Fountain are the sweet life. We don't recognize it as such when we see it, and we don't know what to do with it when it comes to us; and when we reach out to touch it, it turns to stone beneath our fingertips. But Fellini gives us a constructed facsimile of the sweet life so that I can believe it exists. I suspect that if I ever find it on my own, it will only be because I built it myself, like Fellini did.

Lit Candle

Wax from lit candle
melted and cooled into shape
of drooping scrotum.

Tautology

"It is what it is."
Empty phrase! Tautology,
dumb yet pretentious.

Palm Itches

Palm itches to rip
out spine when I hear boast: "I
work hard and play hard."

Palm itches to slap
a ho when I hear the boast:
"I work hard, play hard."

Palms itch to smack self-
entitled brats who boast, "I
work hard and play hard."

Dollar-Fine

When you say I'm fine
instead of calling me dime
call me Hamilton.

Credit Cards

Cash is the Asian
way. Credit cards fill me with
bureaucratic rage.

Cash is the Asian
way. For credit cards are hell
and fill me with rage.