Attention

I vow to always try

we damage each other
and ourselves
with
ourselves

vow to always pay attention to
the potential damage
that can be done with words
and try
for the opposite

apologies cannot always
repair

I can only go on living and go
on trying

it is late and night and time to make some dinner and put things behind me and write the sentence to its end and see what is left over from there. a dad sadness hangs in the room. so turn the AC on, okay. stove flame up to burn pasta and worry over finances and dhamma talks which soothe the worry. as I bike to the store, kids from the car yell at me with a megaphone to pull over, and when I don't... he shouts at me: 'use yr signal next time." he approves as I push on, giving him a thumbs up, like a Thumbs Up Cola, India. and my large friend is what?... getting married on Friday, to a burnt up... mound of crack or?... and when I stupidly asked him who his best man is going to be... I am bound again. and forced to be my best. isn't that what I insist from others around me? the world goes on despite desperation and hard times. nothing lets up. get over that. we are being laughed at.

the most tender
of moments in a
Houston sprawl
sometimes you
don't realize how fast
everything all flies
here in the little H
concrete wasteland

think I need to go back to
up early sitting

in the end
silence for your neighbors
silence for your friends
silence for your enemies
silence for your "superiors"
silence for the ones you loved the most

peace to them all

Noting Nothing

"you're fired!"
but a comfortable life is desired
"we wanted to be Ninjas all the time"
inner city gym
busted up headphones
I like your vibe
but put your johnson away
pick me up a sandwich
along the way
turn your ringer off
upsetable is a word
they keep feeding her
so she stays alive
most the time
so she's hardly relatable now
transformation at the base
shadowcast an earlobe

what you say?
this thing anything
text from the celebra..
cellurum..
cellophane...
cerebral whole joint.
blown up
fall flat on its face
group photo
gotta be reshot
day ruiner
college park route one south
electric ave
all documents on the haves
stoop to stop the last half rots
foam cots
any which one
anythin
wheat thins mini thins
back from technical school
of zen trucking
now discussing
there's really nothing
nothing I'm ducking
I'm deep in my study
studying
truss me
maybe you should make
a space too
it could improve your poetry
rip you a new one
right on the front lawn
if you had one
I get it I get it
any access
is ALL access
out like a plow
losing the feeling of loose
any feeling is
the itch
the glitch in the matrix
read it backwards motherclucker
warns buzzed dog: Don't Do That!
remove the bottom rib
womankind
cluster of oxymorons
troops heavily armed mormons
armed to the teeth
from mid town fo sho'
faux hawks disrupt the
car show
gallery of morons
here's the munch
here's the church
here's the steeple
look inside and see
all the sheeple
carpet done dust bin hunch
in a bind
got milk? on a stomach crunch
crows in eyes
the hour grows late
smores fatten your thighs

unplanned childhood
I chant aum again

hands fly!
I give up I give up
the razor blade makes me
feel just fine
diamond detect four or five eyes
jewel heist wise
let's all break all the records
you're a broken rec room
throw up all
the contents of my lunch
all flash and no content
into the room
all fifth graders out there get out
a little sooner
I mem you sitting so silently
on my chest
could not live
the house did fall
I took pen to paper
nothing happened
noting nothing

this is a time we'll remember
"I transform the garbage in me so
you don't have to suffer"

Barbie verses Ken
this is a
connection
we can possibly sever
I mean really?
overlap
restoration
vestiges of this coffee
I'll have another
finger food
fowl mouthed for thought
finger tips for spit
where ya fly?
play the box set now
'cuz he died
and she died
for more than ten hour discussion
apply inside
ten an hour
any less and
you're a poor excuse for...
I still see the folds ya tucking in
difficult to keep your words in

the street came flying into the room

you're the hottest June and July
ever mentioned

take apart a sneeze
like a Timex watch
for planetary healing
change all the locks