skyscrapers

the colossal lack of motivation
is what we’re here to discuss with

you. you have skyscrapers inside
you. inside your head. there is no

limit to the things you can accomplish.
and as bright as you are i don’t see

how you can refrain from creating
anything and everything spectacular.

the saddest part is you know it.
you tip a hat to the barely tapped

sagacity exuding from your limbs de-
rationalizing this twisted heartless world

into dumb luck. drooling that it’s arbitrary.

and that it’s all very sad. sad, and there’s
trumpets. alas, you scoff from your perch

that the rest of the world just needs
to slurp down another dairy queen

beverage. because who knows
how much longer any of us is here.

oh but i had so briefly held the light

say i
to god
at the assuaging demise
or at least to what i picture
god to be
in this
most likely of scenarios.

buzz

what’s with all the wreckage
THIS IS THE RECKONING
do you reckon
YES I RECKON SO
but what does wrecking have
to do with the reckoning
TASTE THIS
IT IS ANYTHING WITH FAT
AND SUGAR AND GREASE
but why do i want that
answer my question
IT TASTES GOOD
well sure but
IT DISTRACTS YOU FROM
THE TRUTH
JUICY HAMBURGERS MAKE YOU
FEEL SPECIAL AND WARM INSIDE
my sense of personal life sanctity
is reinforced by my appreciative and
functional appetite
YES IF THE BEES WANT TO LIVE
THEN THE HIVE KEEPS BUZZING
ah i see movers to move and ars gratia
blah blah artis bullshit you still didn’t
answer my question
WHAT QUESTION
the wrecking
WRECKING MOVING
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE
moving is something with gainful intent
i would think
COLLATERAL DAMAGE
IS AN UNFAMILIAR CONCEPT
TO YOU THEN
it’s not unfamiliar but
i just can’t accept it
WELL THEN
LET’S SEE YOUR GENES PASSED ON
i’ll pass them right across your eyes
you give me a couple minutes.

slug life

“take your epiphanies seriously,”
says the slug to the wall.

this is the reckoning

so
the time of reckoning
is at hand

WHAT CONTRIBUTIONS
TO HUMANITY
DID YOU (fucking
junkie) OFFER
US?

well okay so
maybe i didn’t
paint a dali
or do some
scientific science
business with the
makesyourbreakfastforyou
genius calculators

but
WHAT?
but i finally found
a way to go to sleep
and i guess you could
say it was painful
but that’s only when
you think of pain
in terms of the
failure to fulfill
an enchanting potpourri
of arbitrary values
clogging the minds
of so many potentially
genuine individuals

WHAT?
YOU ARE MAKING
ME ANGRY well
i guess i should stop
OF COURSE YOU SHOULD
THIS IS THE RECKONING
zipped lips (chief)
hit it and quit it
go for the gold
rock on baby

QUIET DOWN
ANY LAST WORDS?
ahem ahem
good to be here
ladies and gentlemen
i mean this (with all the
sincerity i can scrounge up)
nummmmbero uno: i never
imbibed “too much” cannabis
never ever ever
even when your ears start ringing
and they definitely shouldn’t be
(you remember that day)

nummmmbero dos equis:
i never had a lot of luck
with chicks who were
taller than me (and
fuck that shit)

but then (in these strange, dark times)
we must remember that
this is nothing.

taking umbrage

it is appropriate
to be asked of thunder
its purpose

aside from the
obvious ominous
clatter of fearful

feet running
from rain ‘round
the corner

sinking through
titan spires of
lightning

at the whim of
the atmosphere,
oblivious.

the rising itself

aren’t i supposed to be
“the future”
(something other than
just growing up into you)
or so i heard
but just like the easter bunny
that’s slipping away too
just another
illusion
haha you got me
not to sound cliché
but i don’t see this place
being saved despite
such species self-interest
seems all right to me
anyway
oh hey man
i appreciate it but
you packed it
you get greens.