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this is a horse asleep.
a butterfly in
your brain.
this is the devil's
circus.

the elephant dreams
with you
now.
the curve of space
bends and
laugh.

Living in Richmond is never dull, I will give it that.

it's finally raining in richmond.  and it's fall.  it's raining in fall in richmond. lifes just fine.

Well in the waiting room while waiting for news of you
I hallucinated I could read your mind
And I was on a lot of shit too but what I saw, man, I tell you it was
freaky,
freaky.

It's no fun to be yellow.  Maybe I'm not all yellow.  I don't know.  I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves.

people are so stupid, like all the time, just really really dumb.  and thats fine and everything you can keep on being really stupid, just please stop doing it near me. 

when I was four years old
they tried to test my I.Q.
they showed me a picture
of 3 oranges and a pear
they said,
which one is different?
it does not belong
they taught me different is wrong
but when I was 13 years old
I woke up one morning
thighs covered in blood
like a war
like a warning
that I live in a breakable takeable body
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The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel.

I broke something, Old Man.

How badly is it broken?

It's in a million little pieces.

I'm afraid I can't help you.

Why?

There's nothing you can do.

Why?

It can't be fixed.

Why?

It's broken beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces.

I remember we sat in the swing on the front porch & as the dusk came on us like a song, dark throated & sweet, he told me about the beginning when we had bones of light & hair that burned like the sun & I asked what happened then? & I felt him floating there in the soft dark & finally he said we forgot & I said I never would, but sometimes I do & ( Read more... )