rely a bit too much on alcohol and irony coffee
February 18th, 2010
Damn alcohol and coffee for keeping me up right now, lucid and dreaming, tied to a lamp post with my bed a few feet away.
holding on by the blade
February 17th, 2010
Cousin Carol: i don’t say “i told you so” unless something is really stupid, like i told you not to hold the knife by the blade
still [draft]
February 10th, 2010
still – call just a little
ask me what I am doing
we all need some cash
on us sometimes for
the street vendor or a cab
or the open tab at the bar
phone call from the bottom of a well [draft]
February 10th, 2010
phone call from the bottom of a well
trying to get the Duke of Ellington
what a crazy cat,Tom
always got sticky fingers into something
nouveau with her own niche
She’s got it made
I wonder sometimes:
does she even know it?
a response to the willows
February 10th, 2010
I was a swinger of birches,
and yes, I dreamt
of going back to be,
loneliness, disappointment, other considerations
tempted me astray eventually
Down the heavy-rutted wagon trails,
I followed the boisterous and the busy,
convincing myself I was content,
I saw oaks and maples
but no birches where I went