Sunday, November 23, 2008

More Free Stuff . . . Sunday Evening

Being

Finish the moment, the tremble at the edge
beyond which an urge becomes a fist
you are simply attached to more 

than a calm night sitting on the bench 
with a bottle of Jameson. It's okay to envy
the couples who bubble past. Who doesn't

desire such obliviousness? Go, interrupt 
their conversation, if you don't
care. Or do you value the noble ideal 

that denial offers? The bold injury 
we choose to inflict remains
nothing but a pulse along our skull's 

impenetrable oddness. Really, 
it's okay. You have work in the morning.
Drama never stays long anyway. 

Another slug's a better dilemma 
to nurse. There's a show at 10
you could make, the scratch and scream 

of electrified strings a lullaby for a brain stoned 
by the idiocy of hormones. 
Trip off the bench that cradles 

a cause for regrets you'll hate.
Find your way back to the empty sheets
that want only your ink to open

to a masterpiece. Heat that pizza 
sitting in its box. Watch something
on television. You're not a ghost yet.  

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