Maryland, July 2025

Different

I’ll try it a new way

To rhyme is elementary

Lacking in art  & also

Sex     

lacking

Slack.

There that is

Better.

Cooler. Where are

the cigarettes?

.

Feeling

I vaguely remember

Blue that

Made me stare and

opened something

Deep

it was raw within

But not

Burnt

Rather          

  it was               Shining

from a reflection

Of a tear

I was shedding                  Ecstatically

From larger eyes.

* *

Distant

Vibrations that were intimate

faint

like cotton stuck to a scab that was bright red

Blotted clotted dried fried

The water gushed

And trickled

I can hear it but it is just soft

how soft?

please tell me.

* *

The dream is everywhere

while waking still stays in one place

The padded room is safe for coming to

swaddled in a dream state

comfort

while awake is still

Threatening to tell

someone to keep eyes squinting

wince at the bruise on my chest

resting feels sleepy

feeling rest is like feeling a weight…

Stop feeling by leaving, awake

Stop feeling by waking and leaving.