Perfection is a Phone Call Away

The Fathers put their trust in the end of the world

And they were wrong.   The Gnostics were right and not

Right.   Dragons copulate with their knobby tails.

Some somnolent wealth rises unconcerned,

Over there!   In the world!   Ponderous stubborn

Sorrow weighs down the flying Gospels.

Some enormous obstacle blocks our way.

The untempered soul grumbles in empty light.

-Robert Bly

We met and met and met

and even now as we kiss

i am still meeting you

excited by what you haven't said

and might never say

Breathing Fire

Scrambled eggs and whiskey

in the false-dawn light. Chicago,

a sweet town, bleak, God knows,

but sweet. Sometimes. And

weren’t we fine tonight?

-Hayden Carruth

"Can't count to, all the lovers I've burned through. So why do I still burn for you? I can't say."
- Mark Kozelek

Loreum ipsum

Filled with nonsense

I never knew the meanings

I was supposed to

Unable to obtain

A translation for pain

Sounds couldn’t hold

Your hand to mine

These nothings

know something…

The way they linger

Haunting my eyelids