We, me, he. Rhyming laughs.
We, me, him.
We are the fifteen in a row, horizontal lines; the grounded monstrosities, the heart flutterers. We are the tall, the tight-lipped. We are the steak eaters, the cool, slicked sidewalks, brothers on our backs. Last Monday was my birthday. Fifteen t...
Toss the egg in, stir stir stir, crackle
It will pop. yes, it will sizzle.
If we have a birthday tradition, it’s
these noodles, plain and simple, just
eggs and wheat and a bit of soy sauce
but cheers to you, we have no wine
but fifteen noodles, all in line, all long.
there’s more...
we fit perfect like musicbox hinges
because (once upon a time, in a time
far away) i was a poet and he was a thinker,
so when he spoke, i’d transcribe
a story like this (with monologue fluid, my goal
was flat to predict these line breaks) :
plato drank with grapes, and / olives in his wi...
(a) i wish i could master the english language
so perfectly that i could describe with
heartwrenching precision how i feel
when i think about your eyefolds or your
tummyrocking voice or that scandalous wrist
with my name spilled on the side like simple
(b) sick dreams tonight-mostly of
you-...
so when I jumped at that yellow haired scum short
he said something like he thinks I’m good looking but
that boy doesn’t know me enough
and what is there to know there’s only a little bit of yellow
and blackness and a little bit of
rhyming triplets ; all he needs to know is I have t...
if you held my heart with your tongue
I think it would be healed I think
your saliva would stay
in my golden mines and we’d never
ever have to worry about
preservation or conservation or moration
but only respiration and perspiration and
balcony full moons only whether your
tongue ...
I dreamed of you last night. You were an angel up in heaven, singing something. I couldn’t make out the words because it was opera. You were a black angel in the midst of the other white angels in heaven singing the same song. You were beautiful with black dreads going down your back, and thes...
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