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1987

it’s always like this
molly cat-eyes
faerie queene
pops through time & back into life
language to describe us
entangled in artpunk
& we know each other still
mystery strings sneaking past the moon
pennywhistle silly
& nevermind the cloak of murderous desire

strolling through the falling stars
an aftermath
smooth as honey
clueless as sand
drawn together by the thin white duke & his glass spiders
& from the moon we look
unbound by that spin
more magical than anyone truly deserves

maybe it’s we that connects us awkward teens
chancing after dusty windows
how we arrived here with all these years
these fleeting golden years
pain we don’t talk as the labyrinth
down in the underground of dreams
waving back when we were
a connection so strong
binding through time then
but there was of youth
when we knew each still conversation
slips & dances

no back
back
back in the bright-tiled day
all our magic is
we never a painted clown
& a puckish entangled in black
& pretty in mars
“do you consider yourself openminded?”

Gods With Vanilla

not a hoax!
not an imaginary story!
this is the real reality
the world
at its finest!
the worm

biting its own tail
around & around
we go
melting like butter
intelligent alloys
quicksilver

listen!
this is a hell of a world
so let’s go!
our sentient satellite hq
is waiting

for us to begin saving
the world
in a jam
of infrasonic panchromatic transvisible
multiplicity
ambient ultradreaming
into

this phony phantasmagoria
as shadows of falling bombs
paralyze us
& yet
this is

not a hoax!
not an imaginary story!
we’re here
& we’re here to go!

Oh You Curious Star!

for David Bowie

it’s no game when
those defenseless idiots just love brute strength
but in your careless stride, your eyes
are just like that moonlit night
with mamas & martians in my apocalyptic dreams

a real life adventure worth living
dies throwing darts in hazy cosmic jive
& artsy cover versions
& there’s a day when we can be ourselves but
she thinks the strangest things
she loving the dolphins who swim in the coldest waters
she wanting to see the whales
i’ll wager those two or three gods on it

i want to be it all
oh god, i want such things as the stuff of moon phases
that aren’t a product of a scary dangerous mind
with a starman waiting in the back room
like a slow-motion clown
like the dolphins she swam with
like a black wall & a silver screen

i can’t hope to stay forever
not when i’m underneath the killing moon
& when i turn blue we could steal
alien love to look at him in the neon lights
till you could do better than squeaky clean eyes

i’m the will, the spark, the fusion
so much more than pieces of art
hanging him on my lovers’ eyes
we are here to come and meet the day
head on with nothing to do
when there was no dj that was voice on a wave

i asked for my love & i gave her my blue heart
we looked divine when we came together
& that silly love descends on teenage wildlife
believing the we, for one magical moment, could
say goodbye
with looks like screaming glitter heroes
forever & ever nothing to say
blue, the sky he’d like to see one last time

we like dancing in brand-new drag
driven by anger & hope
in those mirrored rooms they say he has
you can’t tell them apart at a time of goblin awakening
no lazarus, no immortal man from mars
just one kook pumped full of strange drugs
on his winding way to the heavens

Who Will Light a Candle in the Dark?

In a crowded, noisy coffee shop, two people can sit together and still be surrounded by their own silence. They sit and drink together, the rest of the world far away from them, nothing intruding on them, nothing disturbing their quietude. Until one of them speaks.

“Elizabeth took pills last night.” Pip says, a scratch in his voice. (Continued)

The Ghost Functions of Your Favorite Metropolis

Flames are on the new scene, so hold on!

It is easier for members of the Dust Legion that preserve the metamachine police for the Wolf, I say, for the Wolves in Dubai that get into the dreamscape and glance with luring tongues, and young, growing flowers that miss all things fair and forward. Whose monsters orient their own no-wait security fleeing the whole at least were engulfed in New Yorkers who sprayed bullets from seven others as it is. If overpowered, so many discern what conduct all young people have in their sparking desires. In a labyrinth they hide. And yet! These simpering flames on the new scene, our noise and our gall, and a rancor wholly made of jellybeans, lured into un-timed clouds of smoke. Starting with a firearm on Friday from where we are apt to engage, I’ll do so, continuing as to waft gun-friendly showers of human servitors, a rainbow killing the too-sure troops there are of every un-free mind. Who will tame the familiars, full of them as has the Wolf devoured Tel Aviv’s ghostly soldiers? The anti-universe of the gun-carrying lawmakers and lame duck puppets, with pretty airs and young hearts in the Israeli wastelands. Texas is not for them, I think, mild and gentle-humored they may be, those unarmed masses with superspace bubblegum licensed, before the manhunt pop jam injuring like Sirens’ songs.

No wonder therefore these bohemians are suspicious and artful, though their true designs can be dangerous because of Wolves, indeed they may be? They listen to all sorts of rosy blooms that begin to appear. Who manifest, we have to stand with their very houses, nay, with their bedside manners, their tongues of silver. Since the dawn of the day, some enchant and lure Wolves! Who does not see the most unruly capitol in Austin, built of moon dust as they walk the streets? Even of two people and public militia, singing with language wondrous sweet, Follow young ladies but do not in complaisance ogle and leer, or languish, cajole, disturb. From this short story can we easily see that we could be gunmen on Friday. In a city hotel that was better than without one, beauties in the fragrant spring of massive lines, chewing an automatic weapon that is nearer my gods to thee, a public tesseract, wet and dreaming like a phantom. This New Year’s Eve storm will shatter every chain of coincidence. The 63-floor luxury hotel ought to learn and lapse, but above all, sort every character. Some of the demonic superliminal troops that said they knew about this are no more. And so it goes.

Her Apple-Dappled Eyes

long, so love
she drinks a few
anything in love, she said
to know him like the flu

& toys sounded clear enough
when it was a cold rail station
& tested negative laughs
& oh, the time they had
so drank alot & certainly dreamed
of when they were dead
flowing instructions to rest
& you ought to know me home

gee, so long
how much that joy
of love we’ve done that, she said
flying men act like boys

but when your joys are broken
everyone who seems would go might come to
don’t go leave the beach
& money on the young & fit
so sick, very sick, dresses, love
without people hung back he owns himself
love, he lived so in & out of her
you don’t know bizarre, but possibly nightmare

love, so long
he sparks her heart
anything for you, she said
to spot him from the start

they were dead laughs & oh, cold rail station
reality’s a bowler flowing instructions to sorrow lies
was rest & you hats with home & toys sounded
& his lungs like animals flew first alot
& certainly ought to know clear enough
when the end ocean & tested negative for strep
she was fever-free for of focus they have
until he never had so stuffy a day

& they never were again
& they never were again
& they never lost their dreams
into the open so long to love