digitus humongous

its four in the morning
get the hammer
start hammering
hit your thumb

hit it again
make it bigger than a toe

watch the blood curdle
and fill a pool
deep enough for a cuttle fish
to swim through
but just barely.

x

trackless trucking
this here brick frozen in Minneapolis
bound for a different minnessota
than the one always loved.
over two bridges and halfway acrossst
a 4ourth
At the break of day the wheels turned into
yogurt and dozens of roadrunners perished.
an hour later, the oil pressure tap read
mullberries and marry-me-good lilly buds.

xii

I seen a train
sixteen miles long
I run that train
sixteen lunches long

long lunches
keep on coming down
cmon baby
you know Ise aint breaking the
law

tuesday the thirteenth

guess whos coming to dinner
not a dreadnaught
a draught of thought
missing pieces puzzle problems
deepen still sleeping

listen to your heart beaten
bleading in bleading out
breathing brief bulletins

its that time of day
the dead watch is telling time

blues is the mutter

whether its better to stand
hands in pockets under
the yellow lamplight corner
drifting lazy mothlike drunk
off the heat the cement secreted
sweating a haze of the air
humid as the breath
human expelled
 the sun so red the fans slowed down
melting into the icecream cone
mirage horizon

just let it rain
let it pour

summer_started

flitting through filtered rays
the days are getting shorter
but sweeter and hotter
as though dipped in butter
muted soft miles and miles
of sky high
balancing black silhouettes
that chirpple and chase eachother
aimlessly endlessly
flashing silver now and then
ultra high momentarily visible

its a wonder the cottonwoods
need to be so tall
since the fluff is not heavey at all

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RATHER GO TO JAIL

the fourth

the fourth year
was a state
of independence

and now
approximately 26.732 years
if we count by three fifths fractions of years
since , round off error compromised?

its a state of states
a peculiar brand of faces
some smiling some
some dying some lying
some trying to make a plate
of gold out of fools

and can we really be blamed?
try blaming the water for being wavey
or the sky for being windy
these places are vast and indeterminate
as the american people are dissolute yet
all fluid at the same time
that defines us and binds us by our intrinsic
properties not our person place or thing
a country of jeopardy categories
scattered
answers
lacking
questions

the many headed hydra

the luck of the draw
to be born on a planet
that doesn't rain alcohol
or some sort uric acid
and instead evaporates a denatured
state of two pairs hydrogen
one atom oxygen
a particular blend
that is good for everything

its raining on a sunny day

fastforward nine years
free your eyes from the road
stretching miles
ahead into a desert
a landscape of thorns and lost dogs
wandering wandering lost to the world
lost of purpose
lost like alligators in the dark
alligators hitching a ride
thumbs at the work
the yellow center line veering from
its deviated path
out off the road onto the grass
the dew had smeared the paint very wide
making the passage of time glide along
smooth as a skate or a pheasants back
a partridge or even a mudpuppy being very still
stop and pick yourself up off the floor
recognize that what the mirrors are there for to reflect
the heat back up to the sun