Wednesday, February 20, 2008
A Cloud Speaks
and if i dream of you
and if i dream of you
and if i dream of you
what is it to you, really
who are someone else's dream
i have been a mistaken cloud
approaching the horizon again
& it vanishes just as i arrive
shows me a way to drift forever
i saw a man on his back in a high field
with soft animals gathered around him
it seemed the funniest thing
to me, a cloud
that anyone should try to hold anything
i mean the sky is just a worried eyeball really
and i am part of its blink
what is he doing,
that ridiculous shepherd
i will rain on him like cold regret
there are no umbrellas for sheep
why does he just lie there
smiling upwards into what i rain down
his mouth open wide
great hoops of laughter
come out his ribcage...
ridiculous creature
i shall move on to more sensible fools
...this is quite embarrassing
to my sense of cloud-gravitas
my proud cloud-avoirdupois
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Peter said...
You had me at 'ribcage'...
FALLING VALENTINE
Some days I’m the very smiling demon
I abhor on other days
my saintliness consumes me
so sure I don’t deserve remorse
I aggravate the dissipation
my desperate recoveries
require so often I remember
those who left my love behind those
who didn’t get to the canceled
seaside after all my fated
invulnerable travels
and then of course down there at last
there’s the nothing he wants me to be
because of the nothing I falling am.
thanks, bro.
i just fixed the last line..it was awkward...need a little more levity and even sound roll...
"my proud cloud-avoirdupois" should do the trick.
i love saying "avoirdupois."
this is a really beautiful Valentine, Peter...that's me, you caught me...if it's you too maybe we are the same person as someone once accused...
"j'accuse peter!"
but not really.
je t'embrasse.
in that nice brotherly way.
i have to stop watching these love films in my head.
as my friend tammy said when she threw a romance novel across the room and it bounced off the wall after breaking it's spine....
"ill NEVER get a man reading this shit!"
lol. i feel the same way about my thoughts...
close. but no closing.
i feel a very kestrel day coming on.
i feel very kestrel.
yeah.
that way.
Peter said...
Go Tammy...go cloud...go kestrel
take me too...
FALLING VALENTINE #2
Alcohol sworn enemy
of the soul and you weed
Lucifer’s BFF that
second F for fucking
but I won’t go down
that list of excarnational
retreats I’ve gone on
whose novenas for the dead
include a your name here
among the later prophets
and seminal martyrs
who taught a death so daily
and so devastating one gets
almost entirely over it in time.
OMG PETER!! "LUCIFER'S BFF"....that's evilicious...
you've been very rimbaudian, maudit in general today...
the last stanza brings to mind arthur's....
"the only unbearable thing in life is that everything is bearable.."
d'accord amigo
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