To Bill, Who Sleepwalks

 

 

Funny how you always want to know

what happens next.
Until you don’t.

You hope your dreams will be a flow

of some illuminating text.
Oh Bill. They won’t.












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(n.b.: "Bill" exists entirely in the poem. He's not anyone I 'actually' know.)

These Questions

 

What’s a blessing?

Does it require
confessing to Sublimity?

Does it proceed

from a Divinity? 
Is it something saying

that it understands?

Does it involve
the laying on of hands?

What is spirit?

Are we far from it
or near it? What does

it mean to pray?

Why don’t these
questions go away?









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This Thing You Do

 

Ruling your

dark realms
overwhelms.
Too many
helms.

 

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A Secret

 

In chill green shadows
of reluctant Spring
whose portents bring
no guarantee of scented
flower or singing bird,

a secret’s passed to you

you wish you hadn’t heard.
Now it has nowhere
to go. There’s nothing
to do but know.











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Sometimes Sitting Naked with a Friend

 

Sometimes sitting naked

with a friend
can lend
a certain comprehension
of the mystical.

All the competition –

egotistical exasperation –
in the day,
disassemble,
waft away – permit you

both to undergo

an unconsidered
even flow
of nothing
whatsoever

but whatever

was each other’s.
As if you’d
been born
brothers

with a secret –

with nothing
left
to challenge
or to damage it.

At least, that’s how,

if this were ever
to occur to me,
I might
imagine it.






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There are Words for You

 

Conglomerate
abomination!
Unrelenting
turnip!

Involuted

root!
You are
not a fruit.

You’re barely

sentient mud.
You’ve
a penchant

for gratuitous

complexity.
You bleed
the thickest blood.

You’re a mole

without a purpose –
slowly
rolling

just below

the surface
in the rain.
Brain.








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Cosmological Constant, Revealed

 

Like toxic semen,
demons pop.
You cannot
make them stop.

They fuck

the quantum level up.
Each wanton devil
will erupt

in parallel

realities to spark
them into terror
like a shark –

and watch

their atoms scatter.
Demons
are dark matter.










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