MERGE

Whats the opposote of a piranha?

What’s that resting on the heads of the druids?

I’ll make sure I get to sleep,

Once I am done looking over my shoulder.

and cocking my head back,

but not with laughter

but not with sleep, either.

Kicking my legs, back and fourth.

Kicking

my

legs.

Those chattering teeth are right in my blind spot,

Just let me MERGE.

To remember ; to peak

The light is tired of constantly catching up to sharp angles,

and catching up to me.

I am busy trying to catch back up on everything else.

Just trying to remember,

trying desperately to consolidate.

trying so hard just to read ahead.

It has to mean something,

To remember; to peek peak.

To be this over encumbered

to be that free.

Chandelierz

As if I had a choice,

as if there was any kind of chancellor,

any amount light from the chandelierz.

Softened with chamomile.

camouflaged with charisma,

scrambling any kind of chromosomes along with the fighter jets, and

AIR FORCE ONE.

I wanted to be sorry,

to be hunted,

to be humiliated

to be human ;

to be christened,

Moment of impact

Eyes even with the blades of grass,

but not on your back anymore.

You are forced to stare back,

so that you can finally match their eyes.

The eyes of the lions.

The eyes of the tigers,

The eyes of all the spectators.

So that were parallel with them.

trying to defeating them

while still practicing with them.

Putting to bed all that chemistry,

that doubt;

all those rituals.

Deleting only a fraction of it

only some of what we wrote,

only some of what we thought.

We were still bolstered in that moment ,

but still obliterated with plenty of time left

Precipice

All that buildup,

the precipice,

quivering ,

the foreplay; the horseplay.

It burns its way in,

kicks in the parlor doors,

and doesn’t ask about any of those readily available ghosts

or about anything that could very well be documented;

not about any alibies or rabid dogs,

If that’s what they were really here for, in the first place

Bearing down on my eyelids, in the first place

if that’s what they really want,

Nervously scratching at my own stomach,

but it’s sweet,

My fingernails are barely legible in that crisp bathroom light,

under duress

and then

grabbing at my neck,

with whatever is left,

in the morning sun, the very next second,,,,,

with whatever is left.

Not so secret

It’s not so secret,

its all in my ears,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

abstractly, but just as it always was.

I am beholden to those colonies of ants

and all that selfish forgetfulness ,,

Oh the slander we’ve endured!

That ripe fruit drips right down my face,

freezing some of my sweet teeth as I bite down

as I sweet dream,

the fall of Troy,

a million miles away.

Keep it short

All that white sand at my feet,

under my feet,

under everything,

over and over and over and over,

all over everything.

and I’ll still forget how strange it feels , always.

It’s like velvet when we cut away at those roots, anyways.

at least keep it short; sometimes.

You’re due for one, you’re due for something/

Finally, a peninsula

You cant brag about it

you’ll just need to leave it outside

so the smell wears off, so the wind can catch it.

So the world can hear it.

This was never a question of invincibility;

This was never a question of watching anything,

but here are dogs everywhere i look,

but still nothing on TV.

I’ll just stumble through the same biographies.

back to the ling drives

back to the long lines.

Notating all the billboards, and various avenues.

So that we can eventually navigate the rivers and floods,

and finally we hit a groove,

a nerve,

finally, a peninsula.

Slow-motion

No more notifications

you’ll find out and we’ll fall on that sword together,

with whoever is following along .

When we miss keys, and notes and anniversaries and we think we can fly but we shouldn’t .

We lay bare and it is a chore,

make no mistake.

and that original thought was what you should have gone with,

but its gone now.

Your not the Fisher king ,

and I am not the Fisher King, either.

The Fisher King woudve caught it ,

Ran with it.

Scored with it.

Pull power from somewhere else. I’m exhausted.

Capitalize something else, please.

All this talk of power line and derivatives is making me thirsty,

It’s still not loud enough ( but that’s been said before)

it’s as if I’m following along in slow motion,

left to my own devices,

and I’ll always forget how that feels,

just how smooth those devices a r e.

I’ll always forget how g o o d

s l o w m o t i o n feels.