how to operate this machine
first a making it and remember
equip it with a dispatch team
a voice with an accent
a stopping place

i want this so much
for us to all stop
together on our own dime
this time and at the same time

homeless-looking
or jobless at least
sometimes smelling like pee
and they sneeze constantly

talk to themselves
grown men who wear pajama pants out of doors
talk to the cat in earnest
in earnest meaning i often think they're awaiting a reply

here is the line between eccentric and batshit
i can't tell which side we're all on

My brother talks about the house and how he has to be drunk to fall asleep there. 
There was always something on the stairs that made me have to run,
so I made a story about it to help explain the other thing on the other stairs.

But I don't think my brother's brain has stairwells, or even walls.
Just vast expanses of space for him to roam and roam,
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A brain went VROOM and out exhaust spit-sped
and fell or was felled.  But by the time (and waterways
were welling up) at which and to and yes (but until)
the winds were tarry-tied, each tentacle its own town,
every yarn-thrower had emptied its hands to a stand-still.

Your skin was always just bones
with the covers turned down anyway.

While enumerating the many ways
being in love has made me stupid,
I said, "I don't know what day it is."

She said, "I'll get you a calendar."

But we are the only lovers right now
doing this here,
looking at each other like this,
like looking makes meaning.
We're not the only ones ever,
but we're the only ones ever.

I don't even break the law very often!

Break sure has a lot of meanings.

Bother can also mean more than one thing.

Dang old two-timing words!

All night I kept grabbing people's chins
and wagging their heads for them
in a grandmotherly way.

Then it was dark on the stairs
and your chin was in my hand
and I was not your grandmother.

Giving you what you want
is like gluing the encyclopedia together
page by page
and then sighing heavily
when it's time to look something up.

Like Aw man, why the fuck did I do that?
but also, ha-HA!

Giving you what I want is like
getting in the shower and immediately
having to pee.

Like Fuck it, I'll just pee right here.

And enjoying it and deciding
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