schmaltz waltz

the love and the sadness did a dance tonight
there weren't no music didn't break out in fights

thoughts most precious, cast before swine
logged by foes, rest by a pint of white whine

why o why are our heads so thick?
with guts of feelings spanglin' the dick?

why o why is my folks so dumb?
sweetsour intricacies of coming undone.

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my friends are perfect i think that they know
the world is pure butter 2% yellow snow

my heartache is contagious and mostly benign
just suture my memory on some dotted line

a guy stabs his heart in writing a song
to find the mercy of wanderin' on

what in the guts make a tidal pool
with crabs and jellies tangled kites in word spools

the sadness and the loved duked it out all night
there ain't no grammar in the language of slights

chimera avenue

i do on the other hand respect the meat-n-taters mountains,
ocean stirrings of infinity, creek trickle hollers
to the mantis

desert chimeras emerge
from sandstone
to show forgetless images that have etched
walrus hearts out of walnuts,

turned tramps to amps of power
keeping the whitehose afire
with the same yougurt ghandi ate
with the same crackers jesus snipped off his fingertips
with the same smarmy dips with rapid presponse

eyes go blare about the perm/rim/meter,
stare into my shadows in detour
toward least music's actualization in resonated physical strings

touched in and of space: really,
touched, in, and of, space