The Nervous Entertainment
for Cathy
just when I
thought I should
break it up
the other one
licked from
across the
room. A red
echo, and a blue
one slithered
on the star
leg of an
eames type
office chair
I saw
a rainbow in
a gush today
soft green
mountain I
couldn't write
about cause
my recorder
kept checking
itself &
wouldn't work.
I'm happy
cause I don't
work. I'm like
a band that
tours people's
houses playing
when they're
not around
when Cathy
said I love
poetry I thought
well that's
cause it's
going to happen
here. It's
gonna contain
that remark. After
it enjoys
your fire. When
Cathy said wait
till you see
the morning I said
I'm excited
though it sounded
like I
was dead.
I don't have
a working voice
I just have
a voice that
comes out the
way it
wants apart
from me. I think
of voices
I admire & try
to use
them & you
know how
your friends'
shirts are.
Sometimes
it does look
good. These
jeans are
dead. They're
getting re-
placed.
Though not till
after
I finish
my novel.
Robert Walser
did huge
things in
tiny spaces.
If I say
thank you
at one
more gas
station
I'm going to start
believing oil
is god. But
it's when
I'm still
in the
landscape
the numbers flip
the land is
great
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