Startled sirens  

 salt biscuit  

You're wrapped in irons

Sweat and fevers 

Stained bedclothes and torrential rain outside

12 gauge over/under on the floor

Your psyche in the cabinet

Car pulls up 

Wipers flapping away

DoorDash

Let's eat!

 

 Statted 

Skatted

Slated

Slatted

  Ponder another

Star light morn

N porn

View

Demise 

of the stars -

Echoing in

hablandoing 

Grand Canyon

Dead Horse Canyon

Waimea Canyon

Water eats the dirt

La lengua

The rocks 

the coastal highway

Where you built your house

Of stars of KFRC

OF WBCN

BOSTON

J. Geils 

Etc

 

 

 

 

 I played my cards

Shoot the Moon!

last hand 

fraught 

it's just a game!

time to reset?

don't want a loss in my statistics (very important)

lowering my percentage 

When the cards fall

and they will

you'll line them up

and you'll knock them down 

The Queen of Hearts

The Ace of Spades

The Two of Clubs

to

Thirteen + Thirteen

 

 

 

 I called

the broken writer

bemoaning his drink and ice

his fingers slipping

His keys lost in the garbage can

the cat sleeping on his coat 

He hammered the typemachine

with echoing grunts and coughs

The floor covered in dollar bills

a childs high pierced shrieks outside

"Hello?"

 I lapsed

into phoniness

God bless phoniness

It props the unwanted

It caresses the unreasonable

It spits on schoolbooks 

covered in a brown paper

and marked up 

with your name 

and classroom

Mrs Sorenson

6th Grade 

 I never tried

I smoked 

and ate chicken and waffles

I never gave a darn

So what

If you give a darn 

Don't worry

It'll all come around

On a blue gingham dress girl 

Round the mountain

ROBERT FRANK LIVED AND PRINTED IN THE DARKROOM