Goth Romance

Cherry trees blossomed and fell in the wind.
Stare at Morningside hill from the fishing hole
across the river.
Listen to the satellites going streaking across
stable night constellations and wonder
at the seams dividing ghosts.

Violently close diffident to close violence.
Shed jacket and glasses and sunglasses gone
in due time
like fallen leaves ahead of boot schedule
Sleep for days.  Wake to dust motes,
her arm stilled across your torso.
A stiff traffic report. I-216
backed to the gills.

Where is the lighter?  Night turned to day
work.

Chance

"Look to the sky for a warning."

"I told my mother about you
or the other way around, still.
Every grain of rice is someone's
sacrifice and a sack of rice
can't be made without-"

"I'll stop you there,
not to intrude, but-"

I'll tell you six inches of hawk.
I'll to you where she was refined
and stamped
hardened
and honed.
I will tell you where
I will tell you how and I will tell you when
you have permission to be scared.

"we can do this the easy way or-"

think about it this way:
your nose will look as swell around my neck
on a leather shoe string
as it does on your face.

Souvenir?  "Hey!  Hey!?  I will drive you home;
do you have your keys?"

Phase

Get out the garage and everything's fine and I
cannot start to find the right time but I look up
and hook up to galaxy jazz and go platz platz platz
passed to times when the stars ain't looked so bad
and I hook up to the stars and "where you are"s
and it keeps on going falling up to where
I want to be's and
I
travel space.

Disgusting.  Can't stop watching
you eat.  Lip smacking and tired
of what lip smacking is s'posed to mean.

Tooth loss dreams swinging back.

Do you want a napkin with that?

At the gas station again and cruising Johns.

Can't we have dinner?

Come and Push Play

Tawdry.

"I don't know up from shopping bags!"

Movies.  Like I've never rolled my tongue
across the roof of my mouth to find
everything in its

cannot stop having sex wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwith.

Dance!  Repo man.

In the rigging, you burnout!