Thursday, September 3, 2020

WRITTEN ON THE BACK OF A CAR REPAIR INVOICE, PART 1

The clouds are being sucked down the drain with the sun

dragged and pulled 

across the marbled pink and blue granite sky

CONSOLATION

On a day like this

I don't even care

that you're not mine

GOD

everything

     everything

you are everything

HYPERBOLE

The memory of your kindnesses

are like 100 puncture holes to my heart

your flaws

as effective as a wet hammock

to stop the bleeding

4/22/07

the sky will always stay the same

over my house

even if the people change

that live under it

MOON POEM #3

a nail clipping

in ink

T.O. LOVELACE

I don't think we're on the same page here.


I don't have the time or inclination to respond to your six email messages in the past four days.


I think you have confused your instinct to be prematurely open with a stranger with some mystical sign 

that we are meant to be together.


To be honest, I was turned off when you told me that you missed me after three days.


You're getting ahead of yourself, but you're certainly getting ahead of me.

2011

It took me three years 

to get over you

one year 

for each month

I gave you my heart


each year 

I get more pieces back