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"Soup in Loving Devotion"
this tomato soup for you
my peanut butter lover
with apricot
against the grain
anything but plain
and I maintain
a loving devotion
to the motion
sweeping me sweeping me
sweeping me
as I imagine and exalt
in how it must taste
seeing your face
smiling up at me
dear I love you
for I know not how to
there's no control
so here's my soul
as desert sliding down your throat
row row row your boat
gently down the stream
merrily merrily merrily merrily
life is but a dream
or so it seems as I lean
and shine in your beam
beaming beaming me up
to I don't know what
so sweet that soup
I lift to you
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"Starshine"
starshine in your eyes
a big white ball in your big white ball
reflected in the dark part
bordered by the most fantastic colors
as you glance back at me
and back at our maker saying something's strange
something's funny about the whole situation
orange, red, and yellow bellow
and you try to show
how it looks, you know,
weird
and
I
like looking in your eyes
but glancing upward
I sorta see something strange, I think
and my eyes turn to catch your eyes
the color unperceived
for constrictions cause restrictions
but
slowly I see it again
the color, that is
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"Gravitating Satisfaction "
The hunter and the bear
circling in the air
a certain sensible summation
lingering lack of satisfaction
always
always existing
until
other spirits of the sky
pull their points wide
so they no longer
fly in formation
it's not a why
but a matter of time
pupils wide eyed at the sky
if you take in
what's reflected right at you
don't adjust your head
twenty-three degrees west
look
right
where
ye eyes lay
and don't look away
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"Rabbits and a Carrot "
without the carrot
dancing in front of noses
rabbits can be rabbits
and friends again
but soon as both see a carrot
that their stomachs are head over heels
then rabbits are rabbits
and teeth can be made for meat
but
this
is not exactly how it goes
I believe there were not blows
thrashing or wielding woes
oh no
we merely hid our rabbit heads
deep inside our rabbits holes
because we want that carrot
and god damn if we share it
how do rabbits
handle it
when teeth and claws make carrots disappear
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"Teeth Tearing Cells"
teeth tearing cells
saw it down
saw it down
saw it down
the top trees
saw 'em down
because sunlight can't sneak
can't sneak past the
big fat stacks of green leaves
connected to the tallest
suffocating the smallest
discussion of reformation
is like dreaming of damnation
oh the devil's so cute
he can be changed
with removing the throne
that's corrupted in the first place
all the misery
because the big trees
soak in more sun
than they need
than they need
and
they refuse to share
because that's not fair
to those who work
for what they get
fairness brings about bareness
in a cell
with steel bars
teeth tearing cells
saw it down
saw it down
saw it down
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"Adam Don’t Know He’s Adam "
people practice pagan religions
but it ain't the sun
it ain't the sun
blankly expressed stares in the air
nobody's aware
that they're breathing oxygen
call the coffin-man
put me on the sixty-year plan
men who don't comprehend
nor understand they're man
why stand when sit
in the shade away from the rays
it's nicer that way
it's nicer that way they say
doesn't anyone inside want outside
no there's something that shines at nine
but it's so nice outside
that's alright that's alright quiet now it's nine
well coffin-man
don't you understand
I wanna lie down
in the sixty-year plan
then when time is sound
we'll get around
to going
underground
worms worms they're gross and green
so slimy and sick swear I'm gonna scream
dirtying your feet on that dirty concrete
didn't you and your mother ever meet?
I say let's swim
get ripped take a dip
the heat
the heat
I can't breathe
the heat
the heat
don't you wanna swim?
no no
the water's probably too cold anyway
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"Wisconsin’s Rolling Hills "
You know
and you go
on and on and on
like Wisconsin's rolling hills
let me check the past
guess that opinion didn't last
a few paragraphs later
if you read between the lines
why can't you remember where I'm going
when I've told you a million times
you're going rapid fire
about your desires
your wanted and you're wired
to be this way
so what can I say
other than inquiries
to direct it another way
i got you
going on and on and on
about something now
like Wisconsin's rolling hills
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"Hips for Me?"
noticing my
noticing nonverbal cues
is direct
and correct
even when it's ambiguous
music playing dancing shaking hips
hips for me
for me?
I think she's dancing with me
she is
that look
and smile
it's certain she is
I'm beginning to trust my brilliance
Like the Good Lord commanded David
But I'll also be as Jesus
with no bathing Basheba
I'll slay the giants
but with that sling and rock
brought to you by Metaphorical
well, I can tell you
my mind shows discretion and discrimination
but my behavior mimics procreation
multiple mimics of multiplication
and the elation
is to know
Mary Magdalene
her beauty shows
outside in the sunrise
dress overhead
and we were wed
and believed it
and I noticed all along
those nonwords radiating
something significantly magnetic
your expectations are so strong
so I expect the best
and get what I wish
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"The Warmth"
You feel so warm
burning in the chest
I wanna touch you
I wanna touch you so much
it's so cliché but I love you
you're so wonderful
you deserve to be hugged
the warmth
is significant
to understanding the moment
melting into this
bliss and nothingness
I'm so thirsty
you're so thirsty
let me drink from your lips
because we're so warm
burning in the chest
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"The End"
pleasant lips and easy smile
dandy as flowers drinking shine
this friend of mine
seemed so beautiful
I wondered why
I didn't try
to become more nigh
and maybe
maybe
maybe we'll slide into one
in lightness and grace
forever and ever
the end
Summer 2005