What if every day
You brushed your teeth a little bit differently
Dressed, ate, went to work, came home, washed
A little differently
Would you then week by week, year by year
Become a different person?
Fact is, you did
We are recycling as we speak
You may say my choices reflect
A lack of common sense
I’d agree…
But could we call it
Uncommon sense?
We are told to
Control the things we can control
So pick up the damn remote
How many times has your life
Been like tv
How many times has tv
Been like your life
Which is better
Which is more likely
What’s the difference
I passed a
Man-tower standing
In his bike pedals
Listening down at a
Woman walking by his side
In a Red Hills Triathalon jersey
She said I asked him what’s your fantasy
He said well teacher student is pretty hot
I’m a he his
But if my gender
Were to flow—
As it might-—
I think I would be
An it its
It
Would be easier
For me to get used
To being generic
Than plural
Late February
Saturday afternoon
Winter’s ending
Everyone’s out of their dens
Quilted coats and cockerdoodles bounding
Ahead, with a lingering step,
A slight man of modest height
Dressed in worn black
His ushanka a fur donut around his head
His left foot turns
To one o’clock and wavers
As it drops in front of his right
His right backs to eleven thirty
In response
He gives the impression
As he carries forward
Of moving rightward
Though he does not
Holding a cigarette
In the hand he extends to steady himself
He brushes the top of a hedge with
A gentle touch that says
I belong here too
PSA
Overprotective people send three messages:
I don’t trust you
I’m smarter than you
I’m afraid
None of which have anything to do with you.
The past is an
Archipelago of shattered
Experience
One of the better ways to feel Incompetent is to
Try unsuccessfully to fix something
That later fixes itself
Cosmic microwave background radiation
Is what you get after you nuke a lava lamp
Which curses sell best
Question number one
If MBAs worked with witchdoctors
In the future everything may be trackable
Down to the cellular level
This will make life much easier
Or at least more convenient
Dis dissed:
Shevel
Combobulate
Rupt
Tract
Creet
Parage
Gruntle
Pute
Use these verbs please
I envision political views as determined by
Blinders that open and close
Fully back objective ready to receive
Fully forward
Converging to a point in front of the face
The ideological automaton
Receptive only
To a bullet of pure bullshit
Directed into the eyeballs
Influence this, motherfucker
Our cat seems overloaded with
Sensory inputs when faced
With an open door
Immobilized on the threshold
‘In an unresponsive stupor’
This is how I feel in supermarkets
And on the internet
My covid losses, so few
Fingernail clippings as against worlds
A metronome shows no mercy
Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference
Between rigor and mortis
I’d rather be contradictory than
Contraindicated
Don’t find this musing amusing
Click away click away
Ether Ether Ether
Or
Wordpay?
Please
What’s the point
That’s the point
On deck!
