Monthly Archives: January 2014

SNOW DAY

3rd
Jan. × ’14

Like being sick
without sickness
the world slow
temporarily sky
like there is body
suddenly a cramp a coming
a leaf a tree a not sidewalk
a cover up to uncover
twigs dance
winded in relation to
not relationship
inundation
world spinning
overtaken
where is
that to do list
dug up
old bottomers
to send to write
to not lose
in priority
to snow shoe still
down 7th avenue
to ski to laugh
to be not bound
to rigid routine
to [...]

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It’s Time For Vacation When

3rd
Jan. × ’14

I wake up cranky in the morning
and sneer through the shower to peppy music
I’ve self-inflicted as brighten up regimen;
I threaten to call home on an ESL student
because she won’t speak and I just know
she understands more English than that;
A parent says to me “It’s so nice to see you;
You always wear the funniest things,”
and I [...]

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GLITCH

3rd
Jan. × ’14

He drew two green mountains
with a sunshine
and shot a gun
thank everything
there is no blood
Babe Ruth said “Never
let the fear of striking out
get to you.”
He said “I’m gonna focus
do better in school
stay out of violence.”
His friend said “You better
keep that resolution
I don’t wanna be the one
to tell your father
you got shot.”
I had a dream
last night
every black [...]

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to fulfill:

3rd
Jan. × ’14

to bring into actuality; effect.
that assignment that I did
the Spanish homework worksheet
the math problem
solution
Who’s actuality?
What effect?
air has mass you’ve discovered
in lab how does it weigh
on your shoulders
you will not look at your work
tattered notebook page
you evade look away
I will not pity you
fix it fix it fix it
it’s the only way

to carry out (an order for [...]

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Parts

3rd
Jan. × ’14

“You have the rest of your life to create the future, but less time than you realize to create yourself.” – Kevin Carey

Urgency and acceptance
a cup of tea in hand a shriek
the sounds of laughter
the rumblings of an insane asylum
the light outside on every leaf
the fall
the fall
the tension of tripping
the rebalance
the kiltering
whose faces will be
in [...]

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