Song from an old apartment

across the balcony
down the hall from me
who lives in my building
he runs his little white dog
down the hall
he claps
then runs himself
wootah! he yells
and i swear he just jumpkicked.
i see him through the peep hole
i wonder if he smells pot
hes wearing a red tshirt
he claps again
they race back down the hall
eating fish and chips
drinking a beer
I sink back into the couch
it's around 3AM.

Cat's Lost

casual morning-
day of swimming-
end camping-
walking by -
the cat hiding under the deck.

it's funny,

(she's hiding under my friend's deck)

or could it be me, alone.

anxious by an east end empty apartment
no money
no where to go
but nothings keeping her.
and you know it already,
tomorrow she's gone.

we saved ourselves
from ourselves
an opportunity and a miss

she's just out there
thinking the same
but we cant say
no we cant say

just
yet
?

a touch

orthodontics & bayonet brains
i'm drunk on gas in the city archives
shelves tumbling
i'm erasing
history
...

wake ups to a body of text

breaking the body of garlic
wake ups to text
power failures and the workers policy
last nights pasta
a cup of coffee
and the mornings constipation

a day later
after a night before
aching
slinking
into compatible bliss
headphones and a
steel liquid
fueled
cans
mugs
with a hundred smiling faces

at least i'm getting paid for this,
breaking a body with garlic.

and painting the hypocrite
on a clock's hand of lead

Quoting a thought from the night before

"Why is it that pretty girls walk through dark fields in white dresses"

A brief view/ A work in progress

like yesterdays newspaper
riding the breeze.
floating, crashing into the concrete,
drifting under car tires
falling in puddles
losing print
meanings
torn to clean
dog shit off stilettos
I've been born to
scribbled notes on my back
a phone number for a roomate
written across my header
into another puddle i go
dried by the sun
tattered my pages lie
now shoved against a brick wall
rains fall against me
from the broke eavesdrop above
weeds flourish
through many holes
perforations
(and the crack in the wall)