FOR THE SIMPLIFIED VIEW

when i wake up sometimes
its like i am a husk

a nothing who knows nothing
empty / nowhere / nada

& then its like
i arrive into myself
like i am 

a pdf 

to open

& as i fill up 

i do buffer some

& i search my meat browser
for the button to click on

for the simplified view

SHINY HANDLE OF PRE-PLASTIC RESIN

'Man eats meat, and he grows fur.' 

Vasily Grossman



i fall open
like a book
at its well read 

& favourite pages

or i try to . . .

but everything flows 

& i give myself up

to the noise & the not

to the forever & the never

or i try to . . .

& zen nihilism reaches into the drawer

for a hand-me-down no-name kitchen knife

with a shiny handle of pre-plastic resin

&

slices my good ham thin

in a porterhouse dream

or it tries to . . .

FALSE SPRING RAIN, A PILL PACK POP

 

TV POPLING, BUBBLES

hes 
newly clean
clean & new

in the park the sun is out

for him

~

bubbles kids blew 
float assured
on city thermals 

& 
his face 
is open 

weathered like nature is weathered

~

this scene
calls for
viewers
silent applause
&
they
cross
their
fingers
for him

toes too
&
knock on wood

from quotesgram.com

LONG STORY SHORT

i couldnt unlock
for the longest time

id swallowed my own key
and it was lodged
in my tremble belly 
where the blues played
in the butterfly farm

i
did
what 
passed
for 
living

crossing the troll bridge
bullseye on my back
every epic disaster day

but of course it all went sideways
i mean duh lol omg etc

but long story short
i
am
unlocked now

daytime egoless 
brimming with empathy
and diecast zen

butterflies now free range

i am open
loose even

loose enough
to
back
up
the
u bend
every single coffee morning

theres a backlog you see
high pressure 
from the 
farting breadline

and the impatience 
of the 40yr queue 
of shuffling chaff

the matrix

from extremetech.com

THE END OF THE KIPPLE RIVER

( box says-
 'carbon neutral delivery'

but
its
all
cardboard and cellophane

and
   a diesel engine roars away )

           my new
          whatever -

     a moose fader  
   a nano claw  
    a hub opus

 its  some  piece  of  plastic

   just  another  piece  of  plastic

    it did  excite me
  with  its potential

    until it flopped on the door mat
       in the brown envelope rain

         and now its          too here
        too  sane

      at the end of the kipple river
        its  need  is washed away

   i am  in a forced retreat
    wearing  a given stare 

    i  dont even  want to open it
          anymore

from business.nbcnews.com

LIFE SUPPORT, A QUADROPHONE

i 
wake
up

like a helicopter crashes

and 
stumble 
thru 

a survivors day

~

dawns 
inspired
hd 
technicolor  

bleeds out 
into
mail order
catalogue 
pastiche

~

night 
again

pale

somehow open

it came on 

like

speed chess in the sky

~

and
when 
all the LEDs 
come out to play

( coloured stars 
  in 
  a
  flatscreen milkyway )

its another groundhog day

gone 
away

from groundhog day, youtube

CORNERS

you turn strange corners in your mind
and sometimes
something
opens something up 
in there

simple
as
a tinted limousines window rolling down

then
maybe
something wrong seems right now
or
something hard
is
now
as
easy
as
just
doing it - do it !  the obstacles are mirage

when youve turned a strange corner in your mind 
and
lit your brain like flourecscents 
clicking on over a sport halls rubber floor
you
wish
you
could
do
it
on order

everyday

for breakfast

from shutterstock.com