Tagged: personal
on the days when you
on the days when you
take time off, you say that
work is a rumor,
you cut up
the day into bite-sized,
manageable chunks,
then wait leisurely
for a sign to begin
.
20100617:2317
y
what it comes down to is
what it comes down to is
the time i spent not
sleeping is in preparation
for a time when i can
sleep like a child again
.
20090501:0104
y
there is nothing that sleeps
there is nothing that sleeps
like gentrification – you can
unknowingly carry it around
for years before moving out
.
20090414:0011
y
we were instructed to place only 3
we were instructed to place only 3
potatoes in each bag, regardless of
color, weight, and the 30-day interim
.
20090413:2317
y
between 42nd and 72nd
between 42nd and 72nd
the 3-train shifts into
FTL, banners blazing full
onto the dull faces
of its straphangers
.
20090406:2246
y
20090330
what a strange fugue
resting
on the corner of scholes
and bushwick – one ghetto
ice cream truck chime
melting
into another
.
20090330:2224
glenn reads the notes to me
outloud, of course,
knowing that i have no ear
for brahms
otherwise
.
20090330:2257
y
20090311
following this
morning’s yellow
crash, your
explosion, shards
of mental hemorrhage
.
20090311:2347
something is rotting
here, you know it, i know it,
i smile because i have to
.
20090312:0002
y
20090223:2335
(for a & r)
there is not enough room
for the undocumented
north of this jagged border
not on land, and under no
circumstances may there be
a deliverance in the obits
.
20090223:2335
y
20090221
the neighbors are collecting
the money to send you and
your son home, Señora Romero*
two bodies, at once, so cold
.
20090221:2323
y
20090218-20
ten thousand hours
the index to life’s success
searching, unsearching
.
20090218:2349
we linger over
cleverly folded
memories –
origami shelves
.
20090219:0129
not here –
maybe somewhere
a little more
asian – sizing up
chinese bistros
in times square
.
20090219:0139
water heater on the
fritz, morning ritual
broken, two lines of
lather lengthen –
an uncivil chill
.
20090219:2258
4 sombreros
3 guitars
2 voices and a standing
bass – stringing together
the train cars with one
aching solitude
.
20090220:0855
y
y 