DOMESTIC POPS

1.

go-go-johnny-go-wheels
set your clock by him

go-go-johnny-go-wheels
8 AM out for the paper

widest smile
ear flap hat

mobility scooter
on the 
white line blacktop

well he died last week

found out 
his name
was peter




2.

another ambulance
goes up the street

two yesterday
or one twice

in a 
quiet rush
to unsave
the
not dead

& theres
a pause 
of coincidence or respect

in the metal pummel
of romanian
driveway drills



3.

window frame
throws a punch
of
negative space

black stripe cuts 
the
backlit 
sunlit 
vapour
i blow

bedroom
10 AM

nothing to see here

still the wind makes a fuss 
in
the
chimney
breast

from pinterest.com

FRIDGE ALWAYS HUMS

houses heating noises ARE autumn
  click-clicking and tickling
  thru
  old pipes again

and the fridge ALWAYS hums its benevolence
  and 
  smug necessity
    behind
    the everything forever

and workmens drills from over the back fence
  pierce me like knitting needles 
      their hard steel pounding
      thru
      startled cement

and the fridge ALWAYS hums
  blank face happy to wait
    he
    is
    the
    stillest thing
    that ever was alive

and the radio plays a commercial classical station
    cos
    thats ALL the radio will play

and the postman posts WHATEVER
  thru the letter slot
    but 
    when i go to collect this WHATEVER

    i forget 
    
    forget in the hallway

    forget me and forget purpose

      brain 
      fart 
      SUPREME

instead i am reading Al Purdy on the toilet 
    where i can hear
    the fridge humming ALWAYS
    chilling 
    infinitum  

 from aheadinthesky.bandcamp.com