Regardless of anything you hear You remain a man And in your ears you hear the words We must test you to limits to see how much we must love you But how many do you know Who have not bent but broken are dead with no history You know the names the moment I…
I can only fall in love with wingsflashing between the pews of a funeral,divorced from keepers,testing a scab against The Ward’s lightbulbs,call shy at a shotgun wedding,unwelcome awe in the rafters, I volunteer to handle them,throbbing with fear tapping the glass casing,what if there is not even a single poetried music in still air,or rest…
the unsheltered shuffle namelessa spider twitches a web in the corner of your bedroommemories run like rabbits with pocket watches for all of you, the rain in your bathrobes a face of a loved onewakes you in the darknesswhile you fetch breakfast from the storeyou mistake trash for sleeping people the treadmill perfection popupa feline…