Life will always rush in
and wreck your sandcastles,
but sand is easy to mold
and so are we
Day 109 – Green Beans
Give me a can of green beans, shoot I’ve been
living that old frontier life since I was young
Ma cried over hamburger buns and Kraft singles,
it’s still the best sandwich I’ve had
we pretended like coupons were cash and
we were rich in cans of green beans
now I’m rich enough not to eat them
but I still do
Day 108 – Yourself
For all the things you wish
that certain someone would say to you,
I want to reassure you that
you can say them to yourself.
Day 107 – Breaking Points
What I have learned from
all my past breaking points
is that I must
have no breaking points
because I have never reached one.
What I have learned from
all my past breaking points
is that I must not reach
any breaking points
because I don’t want to break.
Day 106 – Prepare to Pay
The farce of demanding a crime in progress to cease
is that even when the crime has stopped
it now warrants death on the grounds that it created fear,
the executioners now only more safe and free to
carry the sentence without trial.
There’s no reason to obey if the penalty’s the same
and so if you scare a cop, prepare to pay.
Day 105 – Face-First
How very zen,
when the world is overturning itself,
to turn yourself right with it.
I do not know what’s down there
at the bottom of this hill
but you’ll find me rolling
face-first
and laughing too.
Day 104 – Like Poison Spreading
Like poison spreading, suspicion
is difficult to unroot. I could not
untangle the shades of meaning
of what you were able to express
because I saw ghosts
let out of your mouth,
dancing behind your eyes,
I saw the words you wanted to say
and wondered why, of all your secrets,
there were any you would try to keep
from me.
Day 103 – Slow My Spin
13 months I’ve been waiting for this cut
and she took a good 8 inches but
she used some kind of flowery spray
that made me sad in a confusing way
it took 2 hours to finally figure out
that it smells just like your mother’s house
and what a way to slow my spin
I wonder how she’s been
Day 102 – I Could Drown
I could drown in all the ways there are
to cause accidental harm,
all the loving ways I choose versus
all the things I forget to do
and that’s where optimism trips me up
because the truth is there in nature:
our inability to ever love enough.
Day 101 – Blame the Rain
There is always a line I’m not willing to cross
kingdoms have walls and castles have doors
the drawbridge is under my command
but I blame the rain for why
you don’t come around
