
Okay fornicators
we have or need
to go back to the light
the hard
colossal
pain
of white
don’t try
but
once there
we rest in peace.

Okay fornicators
we have or need
to go back to the light
the hard
colossal
pain
of white
don’t try
but
once there
we rest in peace.

There was enough
air
to drown us
in acts of
complete senseless
sadness
and yet
we prevailed
through the rituals
and the habits
that were already here
– no one knowing why –
we danced
and drank
cups of blankness
receding into
the lightheartedness
of a deep riotous night,
each one of us
thinking
this night
could last
forever.

It was the simple joy
that comes
when struck for the first
time by the world
the world and my ideas!
the world and my expectations!
the world and my darkly routes!
it was the joy of stepping out
on the limb of the 21st century
underneath the lamppost
and shivering in the cold air
altogether free and set loose
with the world
as my own personal halo
the world and my inconsequential philosophies!
the world and my dreamlike body!
the world and my lyrical noise!
– the joy that comes
from being almost here…

Remember
when we met
by that corner of a disguise
talking with the stillness
that is common to oil
it was an early October blizzard
that trapped us before
we’ve identified our inertia
locked in that cold
with a bottle of vodka and
letters from Rilke
we drank the last drop
of our nihilism
ready to die there
or live on perpetually
with no sense at all.

Grow because
death is a plant
these errors are twigs
more regrets
furthering rooting
if it is too late
wreck beyond repair
souls, human or other
desire demise
no help
is available for them
for us?
we wait it out
thus we die in resignation
thus we die.

could we stop
utterly halt
listen quietly
to the cello
a last minute
full of musical transcendence
all
gone
but for this melody
I tell you
sacrifice me
if it takes blood
to be
tranquil.

What I call true living
is found at the periphery of all modality
after a week of uninspiring tragedies
petty, yes
small unrecognizable anxieties
a tiny indulgence
like a return to a temporary home
that is true living, to say
“I am a great sufferer”
and drink the bottle
to curse the others
after a nagging narcissism
pretends to obliterate a reason
to go on breathing.
That is true living
to hold tight to the street
wayfaring, intoxication
denial
a great wide hole
alive alas
at the bottom of any common asphyxia
true living
is the edge
the final wound.

Open fields of silent dark
Crossing grass prey of ice
Fragile tunes weaves the wind
Leafless trees form the horizon
Gazing up a gem of ivory
Thin clouds conceal the starry sky
Yet through the blanket of gray gas
A wealth of glow can be seen
A familiar face blotched in craters,
Mountains and furrows
Gazes back on this lonely traveler
intently shadows my linear pace,
delivers an eloquent sight to my eye,
pierces through my world,
submits to my wonder…
Oh aged queen of the sky
whose journeying dates back
to forever
What histories have you glanced!
From barren rock to green conquest
Evolving beauty on this planet
Your inseparable partner
How insignificant my stupid little life!
An instant for your heavenly clock
Let this insect sing you a praise
allow my admiration be lost
in the gaze of millions past
& millions future.
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