Falling Water

Nature, and what is there,
how do we handle how to care
for the rocks, the rivers,
the streams that go
into an ocean that we all know
is into an ether, a world too blue
that's here and now
but that we always knew...

I am this, not that,
but though you know...
I am he who was here
a time long ago...
Whether you want me
or offer to choose,
it's an unending lesson
you will always lose...
this water will fall
for it always does
down the mountain
to the pool to what is
to what was...

invidia

i get jealous
all the time.
for no reason.
at ex-boyfriends
of my ex girlfriends.
and current ones.
and guys who write
letters to them.
i hate letters.
I am jealous
all the time.
of animals
that can fly.
or have mutant powers.
of people who can
do chin ups.
and have better
haircuts than me.
i get jealous
all the time.
and yell.
mostly at no one.
at my steering wheel.
maybe.
i am jealous.
of painters.
ice cream makers.
all those
assholes on the internet.
all the time.

Larceny

this is how life should
be-- hanging out in
other people's houses
drinking their white wine...
so fine...
too bad we had to
break in to do it

Hooky

Today's a box of crayons
waxed all over me. Such
wonderful colors and heat.
So sweet the ride would be
were we able to sneak out
like this more often.

Breakfast

I screw up just about everything.
Even if I don't think that I am...
I am
about to do something awful.
I blame lots of things for it. Booze. Stars.
This insatiable lust I have licking inside.
But it's none of those, really.
And it's not me either.
It's the goverment
that wants me to fail.
It's written all over my cereal boxes.
Govt. grain and sugar.