Showing posts with label mind. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mind. Show all posts

Friday, August 2, 2013

Serious a poem about memory

i will carry you on my back
i won't let you die

i will carry this weight on my back
i won't let you rot

i will carry this body on my back 
i won't let you rest 

i will carry this.... 
oh look!
what a cute pineapple hat!
wait...

what was i talking about?


Saturday, July 13, 2013

What was I saying again?





the gas mask filters out pixels they
color the air with false reality confetti it 
blinds white and black deco holes into
drifting, eyes being held by
a helpful dreadlocked nymph who
lives inside the soldiers head but
is not a symptom of
pixel inhalation and
secret moments in solarized cobalt blue and
grainy figures in fish eye focus are
his armor and so are
the poppy field hat wearers who
throw seeds and wear seeds and are
blossoms yet to be but red petaled they are i
saw it worn on
fat arms sweating, sewn from scribbles and filigree and labyrinths they
turn and twist into clashing worlds that are also friends really, you
have to keep moving to be real and
in war between dichotomous forces you must
fashion armor that grows and dies and laughs and wilts and
kicks and twirls and flies and pouts and 
is born one more time for
it cannot break under the pressure of
the turning writhing twitching absurdity that
hard unyielding impostor we mistake for
logic it is or is not so
order the last round it is or is not well
that red light glowing it is or is not see
that building you live in it is or is not and
that body you inhabit it is or is not i am telling….OUCH!
I stubbed my toe!
It hurts so bad!
Dammnit!


Thursday, July 11, 2013

A Memory philosophical poem

i remember you
i mean….
i don't know
i remember you
gentle 
with a caterpillar
on your finger 
how can I hate you
when you exist in that reality
a memory painted golden
by time
that is not even mine
but a thing told in passing
a thing you said
that just stuck in my mind
i can see you
putting the caterpillar in your pocket 
with those huge calloused hands
so carefully 
so you could find it a home
some place safe
from a place of danger 
but you are the gentle symbol of my hate
the expression of humanity i distrust
yet cannot help but love
the thought of you
that I have shined
and polished
precious

hunched over 
head buried in your hands
in an existential pose
of despair
of pain
of time
of erosion

here i sit
as you once sat

generation after generation
the same posture
the same form
the same potential
untapped
in that futile
huddle
a circle
unbroken
stops at my feet

but we now
are the caterpillars

that may or may not
exist

in this gentle
time


i have made.


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