AN UNPLUGGED VIEW

sitting

in my waiting pose

or
attempting sleep

rolled like a prawn
or

standing & rocking

doing one awkward tai chi
or
beached & nothinged 

with the tv 

tuned to anything

anything at all
or 

afternoon painting
with my icy claws

& if i remember to

i imagine my scene
as if off from a distance

like i am looking in the window

& it is both less & more
of a shit show
that i expected

but i see a peace & quiet there

i miss
when
i am
plugged in

ONE TRICK PONY PREVIEW #1/3 GUEST POST BY URBAN KISSES

  Things my mind refuses to shake  
  Lime Street station  
  you nervously waiting  
  hands in pockets  
  the rattle of a key chain  
  loose change  
  polite distance  
  long distance  
  the distance between you to me  
  awkward kissing  
  kissing furiously  
  sinking down in an overstuffed sofa 
  sleeping over  
  over thinking  
  everything  
  once again  

AS M I S T

everything is

just concepts

of themselves

in the distance

as 

m i s t 

DOOR TO THE FUTURE

when 
youre walking
&
youre talking
&
your voice
goes different

like an echo
like a tomb

like 
some great distance 
has gatecrashed in

&
you sound like someone else
for a long weird moment

but
you just walked
into
a bathroom . . .

thats all
thats all ?

& you sound deeper
& you sound flatter

the tile ?

& then the mirror there
its 
growing you
an 
older mans belly
&
dragging
a
lazy hobo beard

like a child would draw

from
out
your
root vegetable chin

door to the future

i realise

of
the
humble bathroom doorway

door to the future

&
carefully 
i dont look anywhere

& do
what i came
to do

from mccluremccabins.wordpress.com

PICASA MADRIGALS, DRILLING

DULL SENTIENCE IN A BLISTER PACK

the
d i s t a n c e
i
feel
sometimes
streetside

is hermetic

i am walking on the moon

~

i am the physical manifestation
of
a
wired jetlag 
attempt to relax
in a new city 
back corridor
hotel bathtub
where the window 
looks out at 
four square feet of
sunless dead brick
and where 
down two miles 
of carpet tunnel  
is
the 
front desks lobby bustle minefield 
and 
tourist tout postcard parade

and past that
down
important steps

is
an
8pm union square xmas

from italianleathergloves.com

3 AM BATHROOM

poems
seem
the
farthest from my mind 
today

their
easy
dance
difficult now

but
still
this
one
threw shapes at me 
in
the 
3 AM 
bathroom

from itv.com