expectation is the soil
in which floats
and which contains
the stagnant fruit of
problem.
it is a torch to the most
noncandescent of relationships
setting ablaze with “typical”
“of course”
and burns holes
in the wings of possibility
it makes
for
a poor travel compani...
He wore
his decomposing rags,
plastic-bag socks,
hole-bearing boots,
His thickly matted tree bark of a beard,
sunburnt leather of skin, and all the dirt between it, stagnant fetor
His three crushed menthols,
His stolen watch,
His fathomless, resonant eyes,
With pride....
Where is my mind?
is it trudging through
the waist-high debris
pointless learning
lost but “getting A's”
legs unable to flee,
anchored by this senseless knowledge
or, it is gliding over
seas of surrealism
contently suspended
between colorful coasts
and as unreachable skyline
...
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