pervasive 

 mal contents 

                                 stewarding the hubris 

   sweet boredom 

    laugh at the song 

                                     tap your foot 

                     

exstopulate
     curmartyrly
                       stidgeon feaders
                                     stoly-brook institoot
slim leary
and his babbling brook
      post rappers
for the security
              tree-erudition
bark is worse than its bark
   sleeves of grass
  Ward Cleaver Whitman
                              I sing the body phone electric cancer causing
                         ouch
          please stop
               can't you?
                            no i can't !
 

War Machines ©2006 D. Norris

slow boat

mirror water

slipping on the cement
      
 no nothing
somehow
             the sun
is burning my skin
 

some prison 

sleuth 

barred and pegasus

the rolling elf dream

it makes sense , right?

 captain ate too much peanut butter

now he's dead 

the patched cadillac

 sweet ride 

forty years old 

 there was a time though 

 kill or be killed

we didn't ask to be here

this was not on my program on channel five

we are the enemy 

bomb hanoi

the sinking tower of underground tunnels               

au contraire 

mon ami 

     bogey 

                                           is still on celluloid

        the sky doesn't bend 

                          earth is a cypher 

                the muniverse

 is a transit 

     black hole 

                 there's enough time 

    for Tuesday 

   see, the gathering of acorns 

   and closets 

             beckoning 

                         there's a river of scenic wonder 

             Switzerland

just Switzerland 

    why? 

 I don't know 

              why are you asking? 

                      you could make money 

picking up race tabs 

I read about it in the New Yorker

   

I have nothing to say 

or do I?

that's the problem 

I'm not sure

 but that's not interesting

 no one cares about nothing 

or about being unsure

it's weak

and uninteresting

 everyone has something to say 

 I know because I hear them

saying stuff

 like the guy with Boston Bruins jacket

to his credit he didn't talk about hockey

 what did he talk about

I don't remember

so it couldn't have been that interesting 

I stole the rankled myths
 from a thousand dollar bill
           carried an acreage of land
 to the hospital
   slept in a wheelbarrow
              now the sky is blue
                and I have to go home
         

From the series: California

From the series: California

From the series: California