stream of the conscious soul

april! April! A parade? A pill eat! A prilled me! a pilgramage!
appy polly loggies logic, hahaha—
hmm, hungry, apple polly or apple molly? but Nay, Nay, not yet May.
A Paroxysmic Release I Love. inloveoutlovetonguelovesomelycomelylove OH!
marched and marched—blarren suhthern lands
from the past, to apresentreadyinlife
butt when? butt then! we may, we may, become of hotter
denser things, (ah! my hart collapsizing)
to seem, too soon, come june, and
and slightly punning jupiter wreathed in moons of jewlies, oh you shalt lie, (we lay!)
how i’d love to dove under such and such a son,
but i’ve become digressed, over and older,
over every star, i am become a sky, and the like of futileture lies.
and now a pretty reddy indigodot liiight. (lick her divine)

oh, present! more present!
perfect present times

respite despite, regular rhythm chants
the cadence, of slow and slow and slowly
rows the evening on, naked from the glance
of continual happenstance, so be
the slowly nod, a weary frame of fate.

ah, but the so and slow and evening glow,
could shake the quiver of suspended space,
to which that mystic pace, so softly flows,
no matter, in the thin forgotten place,
but ah! floating mortal; venerable.

hmm, for what to cling, and for who to sing?
such and such are but broken things, and yet,
warm and wrapped, and nodding, nodding, yawning,
slipping the curl of such thoughts, days they slept,
hmm, to have wept? or to have slept? old friends.

civilization in the sands
to dust, to dust, to the rust
and the rest of the industrial,
in the irons of sleep,
forged by the dream perpetual,
nothing more, than a broken machine. 

we

listen, listen, won’t you just listen to me,
give me, if anything, just one brief sitting
of your time, perhaps then, just a bit of love,
and tell me, you’re all mine, and i am all in all
yours, and everyone will feel the radiation,
of such a nuclear love, and they will listen,
to the aftermath, an atom bomb, just like the stars. 

for we are, we are, more than ever, just an image,
in the mind of a priest, of a love, the love,
the love of, of everything, that has ever expanded,
since the beginning of time, yes, we, we are the ones,
that since the beginning, have been wrapped up in
the endless, the expanding, the infinite light of love.

but won’t you just, just listen for one second to a heartbeat,
not your own, one far from the beat, but in time, yes, yes,
in time with me, we could be, but how should i express,
that we should be, the fusion of the smashing infinitesimal,
that began the creation, of east, of west, of all the sun
holds dear, the generations of everlasting, ever continuing
love? light? perfection? infinite? ethereal? nay, nay,
i say, we are something, so much, far much more.  

last testament; i never had a will.

listen, i have very little time left,
my life, like words spoken, a moment of sound.
so i must leave a note of purpose, meaning, permanence,
permanent enough to at least outlast my dying breath,
orations come, but silence lingers. just long enough i hope,
for i have some dreadful density of spirit to confess,
something dark, and hidden. stowed away since first i hid it,
deep in the chasm of my breast,
i confess she, this silent-pitch memory, has bested my body,
much of the reason that as now, i lie in decay.
but here now, come the time, at last, at last, to profess
and undress the evil spirit, though unknown to you, has always been
just under my now wrinkled skin. i…well in truth, i say that i— 

a universe.
an existence,
spinning, expanding
beyond control,
nothing to hold.
thought spun galaxies
and memory stars,
but so much dark,
so much dark.

ode to one bird

I heard a bird today
breaking the silence
of recent days, weeks, months,
life as of late;
too late has not come yet
but soon age will kiss death
and i will disappear.

in studious silence
among the stale breath
of so many dead men
but their faint whispers
have been shadowed by this bird,
a chirp to awake, and fly
forward once more, fear be
absent—into the light.

pondering on lyrical ballads
and scribbling what i may or must
but who can truly say of what
wordsworth felt that day,
pephaps me, for my heart
leaped, just now, at one rebellious bird
among many, one with the courage
to cry aloud.

forgetful-grown, I have become
of particles of divine inspiration.
numb-grown, to those passions of
present memory. I am hidden in the folds
of the past; torn to shameful shambles,
scattered on a funeral wind,
where I can hear death’s shackles.
but today,
i heard my savior bird—
not much else matters.

life weighs ever heavier,

every tick of time,

waves of space breaking levies,

future lost equilibrium

with the unshaken ghosts

of regret, life undone,

swallowed whole by

black holed death.

we carry burden.

and her relatives

of dreadful incest, deadly chains,

fear the flames like ghosts

those celestial generations

of ever increasing fate,

spontaneous creation

mixed and impurified with existence

in a meaningless sound,

the futile fury, of all seen.

more so felt.

the partly-dressed cancer
dancing fragile among dreams
of the coming and burning sun,
she had no bones, bound alone by beauty,
“fear death by water”
and stumble under burden,
the empty weight that fills her frame,
faded eyes—looking for me, i wonder?
to sigh and dream of less distant memories—

she dances with brothers and sisters
songs of soft stellar wind, but she burns
more than they, more deeply too,
“if only,” she wishes, “a love to fool.”

the distant, tiny stars in pairs,
gazing gently, with intent belief,
she felt perhaps one fool could love,
more than they, and more brightly too,
“perhaps that one also, sways with the moon.”






the day i held my mother

“I’m telling you, it was an inside job. Where are the planes? The crash site in Pennsylvania, and a small part of the Pentagon destroyed. Yet there are no turbine engines? No cockpit? Nope, absolutely nothing but bite sized pieces of assorted metals. Oh and the licenses of the hi-jackers, ironically. But you know what? A Boeing 757 wouldn’t evaporate that completely if it fell all the way from the moon. And the damage to the pentagon should of been much larger; the dimensions don’t match the wing span. What it actually looks like is a bomb explosion. Same with the trade centers. In the videos of the collapse, you can see small puffs of smoke on each floor as the building crumbles. It was a damn demolition! Which really doesn’t matter, if Osama or whoever planted bombs then it all makes sense, no big deal. But in the final investigation reports? Nothing. The buildings just fell. Who knows why? They didn’t even test for bomb residue or anything. The evidence is all there mom, it was an inside job. And that’s only the beginning of the whole conspiracy.”

My mother was crying, “That’s enough! I can’t stand to hear anymore. It doesn’t matter who did it because all I can think about is all those people dying… I can feel it…They had families… it’s just too much, okay? What if I had lost you or your father. What if one of you were in the trade centers. Can you imagine how the families must feel, it’s all just too much” She continued to wash the dishes. She wouldn’t look at me.

“But mom, It’s been ten years, and we live in Alabama. Dad and I have never even been to New York.” She stopped, the soaped bubbled and swirled. She unclogged the drain, it made a horrible sound almost like turbine engines.

“You don’t understand, it’s all just too much. It’s too sad. I don’t care if everything you said were true. That day will always be the worst day of my life. I could hear the plane engines before the impact. I could feel myself jumping…or burning…or trying to call home one last time, with no answer. I’m sorry, I just can’t.” Without looking back at me, she disappeared into her bedroom. The door shut. I could hear her sobbing, loudly now. I pressed my ear to the door, then knocked.

And in a moment, I felt that severe impact, and I was in fifth grade again. I was called to the front office during P.E., and my mom was there to check me out. Her jaw tight. And as soon as we drove out of the parking lot, she started wailing. I didn’t know why. Such a terrible sound that hardly resembled her voice at all. I cried with her until we got home. I still didn’t know why. I had never been so afraid. Even after I knew, I never really understood. And then jumped from the lofty heights of the past, back to now.

And I could hear that same lamenting. Years now, down the road.

I could hear all the voices coming from my mother. I could hear the pain. The terrifying last moments of everyone who died that day. Such a terrible weight with every sob. I understood now. Finally. The tears burned and seared my flesh.

I opened the door.

I held her in my arms, and cried. “I understand.” I tried calling out, one last time, but had no voice.