Come all ye for creative writing, drunken porch monkey talk, sobriety talk, music, odd and weird historical shit. What have you. From high brow to low brow
Can't find the door to the veranda With the out of place herringbone brick floor That leaves me bemused through the window Roommate's son my age died of pneumonia He pronounces it ammonia in Irish south Philly accent To this age would still help his kid cross the street
And I'm gasping for air In flashbulb memories Of the halcyon days Hammock over dulcarnon Redeux, redeux, redeux Adieu phantom caboose Balso's dream in Trojan horse Placebo father set the course
Target acquired Such language doesn't matter In your perception or opinion anymore
Welcome home [redacted] (sacred word) To bring you back to life In this machine Flotsam or jetsam Call me hypocrite
Pot high in the tower There's no cameras Past the cyber cafe on King In the alley behind The ice house deli and the inn Where thugs from Philly Hide from bounty hunters
A couple, more programmed than I What zebra abomination to prevent? Molded after the kiln To be fashioned into jewelry
Call me Ishmael Call me Quazimandias Call me the wind Don't call me [redacted]
Climb the rat lines boys Before you're soaked up to raglan sleeves and sou' westers And swallowed by pycnocline leviathan With shit eating grin Shake your dick like a sistrum We're sconces, we're semaphores All weaknesses strengths Tip toeing on spandrels in galoshes I said make smectic not smegma! This is fifth generation warfare Earn your sobriquets On the matrix of battle For we win no matter how thin the spangle
Can't even escape surveillance Marooned among the all seeing eyes Of the trailer park Staying with an indolent acquaintance Who's been looking for a roommate
We finish laying stone Around the deck perimeter Guess I can't stash beer there From his neurotic stepmother A few rows down
Lennie doesn't drink But he yells at her like he does And he smokes more than me Since his guinea pig died
Lennie doesn't ask for much Unlike her in this temporary situation Since I had to leave my old porch - Not from eviction But an unseen lease renewal Seems it happened to another tenant In their non-negotiable contract
Shekel goblins More people grow claws each day Whether as crabs in a bucket Or birds to 'lift you up'
But Lennie doesn't pry He's going night fishing Where he drowns autistic rage
Hop on the Ebike Brakes need tightening Another long day I want it Ride with rush hour traffic Into the sunset with shades Another long day I deserve it Some truck from the quarry Spilled riprap on the road Another long day But I don't need it
