Linguistics

Action is overrated.
I wish everyone spoke in music.
Minus vocal output.

Can you imagine your last gathering
without words?

Tray

One day
I know I will reach into the box of batteries
and find no more.

What I will
find: bits of glass and bottle tops.  Maybe
a note

detailing
the land purchase.  I will laugh hard and squeeze
as much as I can

out of the current
in the last.

Brassy Knoll

We will have the methods
and the means.
No, it's not a threat.
I have seen beauty.
It is not garbage Plato.
A wet knife
and grenade pin.
A stick
and ruddervators responding,
with a bomb in her belly and
scripture on its nose.
We all have methods
and work toward means,
have you seen my basement yet?
I'd like to show you
something.  Mind the plastic.

Grille

"so long as the eyes are happy"

What makes you happy?

"I'm happier than I've ever been."

What makes you happy?  What really makes you happy?

Even though your heart is kind of small
and it seems like you're built
for something more

you're built for me.

You're a gun
shot in the dark
and the shells
in my pocket

stinking of powder and fire

and brass.

What really makes you happy?  Around the mouth?

"Everyone says 'hi.'"

What really makes you happy to the ears.

The smell of ash.  The way
it gets greasy so I can taste it through my nose.
Musashi said a lot of things,
he never said
what should be done after the battle ended.
No one has.

From ear to ear.