After Reading A Sucess Story

Driving Home From Winco

To be alone is tragic

Like the nothing of night skies

On the road with streetlamps

And no cars,

And the shadows of the trees

Around the houses.

I hate it! And I hate it! And I hate it!

The more he loves his lover then

The less he talks to me.

He doesn't like my poems,

So I shot him.

I was born a slave.

That's how I'll die.

12-16-13

 

Open

The wound is healed.

At last the verse is gone.

Beauty's dead

And lies beneath the lawn.

Tomorrow if

Another rupture opes,

And what's left

Of the cadaver gropes

From my body

Into open air,

Poesy will

Possibly repair.

12-16-13

 

TA In Review

The Witch Parent. What does it mean?

Intuition. The Little Professor.

I haven't got intuition,

Never had, doubt I shall ever.

Parent, Adult and Child.

I'm unaware of which ego I'm in,

If I'm in any,

If any exists.

Schizophrenics believe the world

Is scary. We're all schizophrenic.

Paranoia – the epithet

That means mediocrity -

Shattered my happiness

Gnawed at my soul.

Come upon one who is

Not mediocre,

The structure will float like a witch!

And the Gallows Laugh

Is found in a book.

12-16-13

After Reading A Success Story

Bukowski and zombies.

Live in a world

You used to imagined when

You were a boy,

Passing up Proust to

Embark as a writer,

Adored by the people,

As rich as the church.

12-16-13

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