The look of blood congealing.

Ways to ruin a feeling

Philosophy is the sense of accomplishment that some people get from extracting a simple thought from a garbled mess of unending and unnecessary qualifications on thinking it.

I should have switched my Specialist a long time ago.

Silence, a pulsing crescendo between the
footsteps in the hallway as if nothingness
had taken governance. What parts
of the crowd weren't whistling with
the intake of breath were muttering
to themselves in the half-light. The floor
beneath their feet came alive with dull
thuds and the clanking of metal. Announcing
the activation of some buried

Dark of the invisible moon. The nights now only
slightly less black. By day the banished sun
circles the earth like a grieving mother
with a lamp.

A clattering charcoal blotch of migrating crows smudges the sky above us as they follow the river south for the winter.
Doves disturb the fucking foliage.

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Outside, lightning breaks across the sky.
Small sporadic flares of electricity
brighten the clouds
like taking flash photos
under a blue bed-sheet.
I turn the pages
of a
well-worn novel.
The
spine splits
and
its cleaved;
A halve in each hand,
leaves parachute
to the slick, wet ground.
Thunder crawls like an ancient creature.

Young American ghosts destroy the air.
The shadow of planes written on the sun.
The bottom drops out, metal monsters tear
Towards us. The ground rises as we run.
God has sent this piece of rattling tin.
Death is near. Sudden violins fall in.

Still living in the same studio where second-rate artists tied and bound things,
he said: it was a long time ago, but I used to have an impact on my surroundings.

Strip malls,
winter in the fall,
it happened so slow I barely noticed it at all.
Blank tapes,
try to stay awake,
I'm running from the future, but I can't escape it.

They don't looooove you, they don't love you, they don't loooooove you, they don't love you.