Imported Poems

La de da
Says la
Zebra
As she
Fastens her
Bra getting
Ready for
Her
(Blind) date hoping that
Her stripes
Don't show

[subtext: her date Is blind; could care less what she looks like, but she is tizzified, perched between two colors.]

and i say
and i say

anything would've been
easier than
life.

nursing this hematoma
on my heart
praying for strength,
i try to forget
to escape for one
second the smell of
you, your voice,
my pain -

why doesn't pain block the pain?

i wish i knew your secret...
i'm bad at backburning
there are no firebreaks
why can't i stifle ...

blackened catfish sweet
rivers grey ash stampeding through
new york corridors

do you remember?
when we milled around this cobbled
street
bricks overlaying grass, trees dying
'round the city
giving their lives to structures
in the suburbs
we stand here today
on the corner of 11th and
market
the cobbles are gone
replaced by pavement
like amnesia over love
in 100 years not
one of our bodies
will remain
though we may return in
new ones
...

possibly pebbles
remember
nothing remember
time before it began,
and the yugas before
even matter existed

when they were untold
quantities of gas

before they became mountains
where dinosaurs
mated thrashing their tails
trying to escape
inevitable doom
when meteors
displaced them
and turned them
into sanctuaries for
people to pray
to explore
get lost ...