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Diamond
tipped carelessness cuts glass
making it hard to see through
without seeing two
images
one thing I swore I'd never tell her was
that I never loved
anyone When life
gets hard buy a baseball cap
a pair
of
khakis tennis shoes
that cost more than any book
you've ever read
blend in like whipped egg.
Buy a truck or an SUV park it at
precisely
the most obstructive point in any parking
lot
then stand slightly away from it
point back at it and say
look at that SUV (or truck) parked
at precisely the most obstructive
point in the parking lot
I
bet the guy who drives it
has a huge penis
Either that or start carrying an axe
carve your name
into
the paint jobs of decadence You've either
got to give it up
right away or earn
your soul back through strenuous
ongoing
complaining Heard a noise
in
the streets of celebration
Thought it might be Jesus
coming
back but it was just the McRib That
I can afford
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Children
throw rocks into the calm center
of my solitude
this is a nice way of saying
the world wouldn't be
so
bad if it weren't
for all the billboards the smell of rotten
meat
lingering in the parking lot
of the doctor's office the need
to
piss in alleyways
(you can deny it's you
but someone is doing it)
the warm murmur of the herd
letting
me know no one in this room
would find anything
I care about remotely interesting
This is the sort of thing
sets
us buying soiled undies
online You must be ever vigilant
you don't let your friends know
they've become
everything
you hate
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Smug
smile like it was his idea the sun shone today
that's fine but take
responsibility for everything else
spilled
coffee on the crotch of exuberance growing
cold leaking through
to stain her strap-on
Whose
idea was it to make life so easy
to avoid
Son
of a bitch pulled out in
front of me on my way
to the ice cream place
then
sped up
so I couldn't complain
without feeling a little silly
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