Cats

I have broken all of your taco shells.
They smelled delicious.  I think.
Or was that the taco meat grease
from the fingertip you used
to close the container?
They did not scatter,
the lid remained fixed.
You really should do better
at washing your hands regularly.
I would say "you're welcome",
but we both know you are not going to thank me,
you ungrateful piss,
and will probably feed them to
those feathered flying mice
outside my window.

Smoker 61

Licked fingertips touched to engine block.

"Yep, that's 10W-30.  When is the last time
you changed your oil?"

About 4,388 miles.

"We'll throw one in.  An extra thirty sound good?"

A hex on all of your houses!

"Fifteen is fine.  You can pick it up next Monday.
No one will be in the shop 'til then." 

Okay.  Okay.  I will see you then.

"I don't have a lighter."

Right.  Yes.  Can't smoke in here. 
Monday!  I will call.

Start Up Chime

Immolate.

Call and response to knuckles and jaw bone.
Test focus.  Ring.  Bawl.

Each link along the armor suited
bundle
from thighs to base of skull.  Ring.  Howl.

Turn and pull flexors tied from
hip fronts to arm pits.
Ring.  Gnaw

joints within reach of lips and teeth.
Feel the response call.

Knit eyebrows and
wiggle thumbs.  Remember pinkey toes.

Pull and push
imaginary obstacles.

Thrush and trill the part of tongue
that doesn't get used very much.

Remember they're there.
Adrenaline is a thing to be used sparingly.
Remember its there too.

Press on
the two bones that make up the links to your paws.
They're there too.

When the song is complete
each part makes up the beginnings of an end.

Where it is - can not be known.

Hit

First meetings and I want to know everything
that makes you different.
Worry war
for all four
all fall down.

Stumped and charmed with
your "I know your confusedish"
wry
smile.
Can I compose an excuse to meet with your
guillotine?

Planets and stars and
large spaces of curtains of gases
and claws and was that a wink
from beneath eyebrows
or a glint
of a guillotine?



A wash and do not be upset.
Lives to live.
Be let in.
Walk across. 
The only blade is the one inside of your head.

Valentines Day

After Elastica's "Miami Nice"

I want to make you run.
I am.
Powered by a sun,
a system,
cased in ice.
Caged for reason.  Caught in perpetual collision.
Run run run.
Run run run.
Run run run.

Tooth

Fear of the evening darkness
slips aside as easily as my zipper
to tuck the pack into the jacket
underneath my coat.
Twelve seconds. Returned.
Smoking again.  Drags between
gnawed fingernails on the right hand,
my glove still wedged beneath
my left armpit. 
Dabbing out the cigarette's embers,
afraid of the dark.  The seams breathe.
Coughed spots of blood again.
Twenty-three seconds.  There is time.
We can make it.  If we leave now.
Sun will be up in eight and a half hours.
"Be afraid or fearless,"
the seams breathe and wrinkle
like waterlogged clotted scabs,
"the sun will set again
you pretty, lonely, thing.
Please do get your rest in the morning."
Get there.  We'll be fine.
Cigarette ember burns both knuckles.
If we leave now, we can make it.

Obelisk

Learning what it is to really.
Skin eytn scdsa.
You're not supposed to say that.
Expletive enhanced.
Chunker. Do you remeember?

The way your father had conversations with you
with television sound bites?

Slaughter house six.  Cult.
Joys. 

Why can I not have a tooth collection?
I don't want papa to be proud of me.

I would like to gift him one of my teeth.
Be reasonable.

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p ;sdlka I suppose
we could skin them.  I don't know how to dry pelts. Yet.

Four years from now
to learn.







Reasonable
scope.








Afterward.
One finger to a year.
Make it count.