Discouraged

Don’t be discouraged by words you hear.

The clicking track goes to my ears,

My hands still flag and fail to keep the beat.

I find that after all these years

I have not made a single song complete.

Here’s things that don’t make sense

To many people: Crescendo to the end,

Diminuendo first. Semiquavers then

A couple of crotchets. Pull off then bend.

Don’t be discouraged by words you hear.

June 30

Smithereens

Just as Caesar fills a bunghole,

Shakespeare’s clay’s (like his plays) inside of us today.

Our not too solid flesh stays fresh for only so long

Looking for the tiny pieces of others in us:

Smith-ereens and Wilde-beans in me.

I could sublet my house and subdivide myself

to search smaller and smaller worlds.

There, pluck the electromagnetic spectrum

with my spectrographic plectrum –

sound, wave to magnetism,

o o o ripe ripples ripping once again in rings (sings).

This is the sound of singing: o o o

June 29

Dwarf Alberta Spruce

Deer resistant but not deer proof - depending on scarcity of food.
Dwarf Alberta Spruce.
A small, dense e'ergreen.
Takes 25-30 years to reach maturity.
Foliage and cones.
Now I'm just copying and pasting.
I need something hardy and strong.

June 30

Never Give The Woman To The Money

Never give the woman to the money, he says,

As if it was a thing animated and

Capable of controlling her and ordering in some way

As if it had a mouth, slow and deliberate

speaking: feed me, feed us.

As if it had watery eyes and watched her

except when she didn't need the guilt to act.

As if it had no ears to listen to her

brief protestations as she finally gives in.

June 25

To The City

My love by bus why train

try car no parking no place

All roads lead in to

Underneath the common ground

Nineteen dollars.

A flat fee for a round trip

Through bridges and under the road

No roads lead out

Common round and under

June 28

Be More Responsible

(What? was the expiration? date)

Taint misbehavin’. Misdemeanor. Seen some things.

Not a plant, not an animal – something else.

Fungus spreading. When one gets it, they all do.

Softsmell burning, sickly sweet.

Sweet, sweet, sweet. Sweet in your mind.

Sweet in your mind but repulsive in your mouth.

June 23

Cool Down

When she takes a shower –

Shampoos, scented soaps, hair conditioners

Can’t cool her down soon enough.

Dare I disturb her there, bare and in that secret place?

Nay! Not I!

Not when I am the one that made her mad

Not even when it’s no fault of my own.

Later,

Bathroom baptism over

Water swelled and drained away.

June 24