Wandering Write

ideas as formless as the hum of the air conditioner – I have it on all the time. A permanent machine fixture of background lifeless

ideas as formless

but without the malice of politics – and more coherent – political rally on youtube – sounds evil
my dog is licking his paws, I tell him to stop. The light in this room needs adjustment- it’s too dry, too cold, the walls too white and empty.

Politics shapes the character of day-to-day, I think.
Last year was constant stress, panic, short outbursts of violence. This year is the slow-drip anxiety of global dementia.
Neither are ideal. Or any good at all.

My throat is dry, the trees outside wave in the wet-hot breeze of midsummer.
And I wonder, as I do every day around this time- what next?

ideas as formless

The air is as cold as the white of the walls.
Outside it is hot, even as the sun goes down.

Association Generator

words
the shape of the line, the position of the tongue
the placement in time, the corresponding thought

 

sleep separate
property reduce
mess position
resist transparent
kneel silk
exclude log
injection transaction
freshman squash
satellite concert
cave fraction
steep spring
die loop
reckless relaxation
swipe bacon
peace owe
analysis shoot
some are
random some
are not
insert excuse
metal lighter
beam fit
print linger
reduction mile
cluster offender
dominate mold
strategic employ
package
freedom

bubb

trapped, where every breath is a question
every answer is silence
every portion is not-quite-half
push and sink through the morass
the blood is blue and the water is black

 

bubb bubb a bubb, dubb a bubb dubb bubb

Machine

matter mixed with information,
radiation dancing in the air,
oil floating over oceans-
grease for the gears
of the human machine
continents of pavement
towers tear the sky
lumber falls, crops ascend,
the rhythm of the land,
the delicate hands of time.
spring for the rain
autumn for the grain
satellites
silver
and salt

Becoming

awash in the colors
of a moment so
present it feels like a memory
as if what was now is
but now is the past

Old Normal

Common sense isn’t rare
a foundation made of sand
the ship rose from the bottom
I’m living mouth to hand
Everyone went crazy
pretending they were sane
to me it’s not a tragedy
if I only had a brain
Everywhere there’s people tripping
I got nowhere left to fall
some afraid of losing something
but I never had it all
I got my senses
I see where the train is headed
climbing ropes unravel
but my string was never threaded

The world starts spinning
wrongside round
faster than a flash
gravity stopped pointing down
nearly broke but I got cash

Other Side of the Mirror

I woke up tired and went to bed awake
never got used to living
with so much and so little at stake
I think about the future
I prefer the promise of tomorrow
yesterday is not so forgiving
I debate with my computer
never got used to living
but when I look past and
through my window
and strain my eyes real hard
I see a light off in the distance
and it’s really not that far

The Last Few Decades

mainlining internet
watch out for brain zaps
automated processes
never trust that
hysteria,
autosave, theta waves,
seconds
till the next craze
what do you dream?
tap now to find it
crunching the numbers
that pulverize, grind it
to powder that pushes
the new drugs through
proteins and neurons
that plead
for more
and more
and more
and more
and more
and more
and more
and more
and more

Images & Words

Scrolling past pictures all day, for years
The universe confined to four corners of a screen
What is the purpose? What does it say?

to stop on one that means something.

Let Us Out

Get your papers in order
Nobody ever get sick
Stay inside, stay in line
Never tell your own story
Believe everything you’re told
And accept it, defend it,
So long as someone makes money
By preventing humans being

let us out let us out let us out

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