ABOUT FREEDOM

freedom
is
like
a 

payday bank balance

looks ok at a glance
but its all spoken for

FOLLOWING THE RULES

weekday kitchen kettle whistle  

&

comedy show canned laughter

bubble thru the walls

following the rules

all saying its all ok

~

& i hear them

& i hold them

for the heavy tomorrow 

when 

we

i

you 

cant

DECLARATION

 

i 

am

a 

culdesac tangent

a spur off

the

replacing circle

awake in the dark

ok ?

& listening to the winds

from visitalbuquerque.org

SILENT VISITATION IS APPARENTLY OK

i remember when this happened -

i remember 
i was walking down 
an empty hospital corridor 
in a fickle fri pm 
loose work-almost-done buzz 
when i saw this child 
coming up toward me 
with 
eyes 
soooooo 

    f  a  r    a  p  a  r  t

~

i remember 
his inverted teardrop head 
his chin 
could have 
cut paper
could have 
cut timber

~

i remember 

hes two & half foot tall 
if that 

& theres a knowing glowing 
in his black eyes 

& theres a penetration 
in those eyes 

& i remember 
feeling 
seen 

~

hes not a kid 
i remember 
one look was enough 
to know 
hes not a kid

i remember 
he freaked me out 
& freaks me out still 

no joke tho 
at anyones expense 
but he was 
beyond human variety 
& no ones laughing here

i remember 
no one was laughing

~

now theres human conditions 
all sorts of human conditions 
of melting pot variety 
but 
i remember 
i googled facial displacements
& anomalys soon as i got in 
& nothing medical 
was close to this 
nothing even close 
to what i saw

~

that was 
no child with a condition
that was 
silent visitation

i remember 
i think 
i saw 
an alien 

& apparently 
thats ok

from fineartamerica.com

CHILD INSIDE

like a tree does
he
layered
a
man
around himself

from
laughter & denim
from
night-smoke & circus mirrors

collecting
small collections
of
glass & steel

&
he raped the void
with
sarcastic rebar

soft & hiding
on the
hard train

rolling rolling
magnetic
tape

~

sometimes he calls up
how did i do ?

you did ok
i tell him

careful not to hurt
his delicate feelings

but i miss you

from mizzoumag.missouri.edu

WONDERFUL OUTSIDE

        & 
  
  it smells wonderful outside
  it smells wonderful outside
  it smells wonderful outside

  lilac & that
  nice you know ?

  i 
  am
  outside

  ok in the AM

  breathing it in

from nytimes.com

NO POLITICS JUST SPAM

i remember having spam
as a kid

with baked beans

i remember the bean juice
on the pink meat

sometimes it was ok
sometimes i would gag

now i got a WHOLE folder for spam
on my pc

and one on my phone

whod have thought it ?

theyre very full these folders
with very crazy stuff

sometimes thats ok
sometimes it makes me gag

anyway these days
i hear
theres spam drs

whod have thought that too ?

i remember going phishing too
as a kid . . .

from med.stanford.edu