Poor Ear, Mine Own Instrument
A note held for a lifetime,
an experimental sound
at a constant pitch as if I were
constituted by piercing.
Fresh Report
I am here in
the disaster area,
the prescribed
zone of the disaster,
so for those of
you not here,
please be assured
that you are not
experiencing
a disaster for only
those in the radius
of the disaster can
anyone be said
to be suffering
from the disaster.
Saccade
Grandmother’s funeral rites: bad vaudeville.
The binocular salesman had an owl-like face.
My signature is a zigzag.
A few new circumstances can change the future.
The future can change the past.
Something inherently elegiac about reversals.
God is infinite, like money.
I can’t say anything accurate and universal at the same time.
Except that everyone sleeps.
The new normal is an ancient strange.
Join my company: pay’s at half pay.
Only adults giggle nervously.
I sit at the bar, fingering my iPad.
Hang tight means to hang loose.
Writing a poem is like the moment in a musical when people go suddenly from talking to singing.
The sea of time entails an oarsman.
The sea of time entails an astrolabe, a skiff.
Rich kids don’t drown, I heard once.
I want a God that humans can punish.
Archangel
I spoke against
the circumference
around me, but
I was unheard of.
When it came
to the masters,
I was unread.
They didn’t read me.
I hope to make
a good companion
out of myself
after I’m dead.
Open Source Apology
There’s a rotating restaurant on top of that building.
Everyone looks up.
It doesn’t seem to be moving, are you sure?
Yes, I’ve eaten there myself. It moves very slowly.
Everyone looks up again.
I don’t see any movement.
Well, fix your eye on something and see if it moves.
Yeah, I did and I don’t see anything happening.
I’m telling you it’s a rotating restaurant.
Maybe they’re closed and not rotating now.
But I can see people near the window.
It must be open because the lights are on.
Well, it’s not moving for me.
There’s an abandoned swimming pool at the top.
And the glass elevator is amazing.
You can see the entire city rise up from it.
Sometimes I just take the elevator for the view.
I say, ‘Oh, sorry, I’m on the wrong floor,’ and go back down.
