Monday, January 5, 2015

SINK OR SWIM


I come home drunk and eat chicken.
It’s too late for dinner but I eat dinner,
and in the morning will be exhausted
by the circle formula
of another poem
born from regret. 
Boring.
Armando laughed from the
upside down bucket
at the pistol hand 
I pointed to my temple; 
the couple who ran the donut shop 
in Rainier Beach were beaten, 
and we raise money on the internet
for their big black eyes.
Universally, I want to drink drinks with you
and take you to the water
to grant you with 
a new years resolution
of facing all your fears.
On the leather couch everyone
mocks everything,
it’s how we defend each other,
loser gang of tiny insects
looking for
a honey lake.

1 comment:

  1. Has Utopia's King found honey lake yet? Has the piratic cannibal eaten his fists? Tell wire and electricity boy to brush his teeth; give a hug to the deep-voiced alien princess if she's not yet gone to make it big, and another round of soda water for Simchowitz's protege. I haven't smoked a cigarette in months dear but this little poem almost makes me miss that choking head-blurr feeling.

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