supermarket
hero
clad in shorts
   buying
payday
   bars
on sale
 

the barrel fisted
    wandering
through
parchment
 -nationwide
 Jack Kirby's cigar
    is not a pen
       the silver surfer
          rides through space!
               we look back now
                    at the yellowed pages
      15 cents


    
               
  

spazz
  fractating
    in lactic acid
      supply side
         muscle memory
(pain)

the words
were not
in line
 so to speak
 still
there was a sense  
 of permanence
    in the ruins
 you stole a look back
   and that was it
    tied to the mast
      was one way to listen
to that song
  but they
didn't build that city
 on rock n' roll
  so we boarded a night train
 to somewhere else

errata
    conscripted
  like a movie
at The Quad
    always walking the wrong
way
    you'd never even heard of him
but
it really was great
    even the 3-d!
   but then it got dark
and i was tired
so i went back to new jersey

it was a broken semaphore
     he used to use it in the army
  later he left it at a house in San Jose
      We used to argue about it
          but we argued about everything
   didn't matter though
somebody found it and sent it back
so I guess we'll never REALLY know
what the message was


  

don't 

try 

this 

at home;

   sunken tambourines 

                           in skeletal submarines 

 sorry, no, that's not it 

              I'm at a loss 

                                     the heater IS on, anyway

         just because you can, etc.

     please don't laugh 

     I've tried pretty much everything 

                                             (your face reminds me of a girl I used to date)

             

 

 

stark
  blueberry
  reality
you see the water
 there's light
 your mind collapses
   the frozen fingers
    grab for a piece
of fruit
  small
round
delicious
blue

I painted the door frame
   and the door
      off white
         but when it dried
            it was matt
       not semi-gloss
     still
it looked
better
  I got a deal on the paint
  four dollars
because it had been opened
    I told her I wanted
semi-gloss
and it was matt
 still
  it was only four dollars
    and she was a nice lady

the dust settled
    like
something
   interesting
but it wasn't
it was just 
dust