Monthly Archives: April 2010

Today I will not clean the apartment
before getting started
I will let dust procreate
in the name of meaning
Today I will eat everything in sight
before eyeing the calories
fuel my ticker-typing torment
believe in not matter
Today I will forget the paperwork
before noticing the due dates
my desk ungraded papers stacked
will sing their independence
Today I will strangle anxiety
before glancing the blank [...]

You and I are in counseling
rather we dream in dream
about being
in counseling.
You refuse eye contact
I stare.
A show plays, a bicyclist jumps
building tops
on his bike, uplifted by balloons.
I lineup to attempt
this stunt
reminding me of Christmas
a tree decoration my mom still has:
a tandem bike
they rode their honeymoon.

I barely know you
face so swollen
years passed too.
It shouldn’t be such a struggle
to tune out what does not matter—
music from another room,
someone else’s troubles,
getting whole milk out of public schools,
breathing, diaphragm and trachea,
(plunging into anything)
I cannot fathom
that you are a man
or alone.
But we see with stethoscopes
misunderstanding created by ropes
wondering what’s beneath
worried over approval stamps (not [...]