it’s falling from the sky
we’re all gonna die
i don’t know what to do
me either
wanna get high?

(and watch the sky together
come apart in streams of light)

wanna bleat
like a sheep
and fall in a heap
forget who you are
and pretend while you weep
tears that are dry
cos you can’t even cry
cos your brain has been altered by SSRI
so consider the rhyme
consider the season
consider the reason you’re reading this wisdom
this wisdom? or is it
something else instead
is it memories of people
who’re already dead
and recounted by fingers
that can sense the unsaid

I love,
All the little scraggly birds,
wide-eyed and feather-ruffled,
Tossed aside by the wind,
Into garden beds or against,
Reflections of the sky.

Good Morning Michael,
Who are you?
Can you tell us a little something about the things that you do?

What’s your story about?
What type of things do you write?
Are you familiar with deception as a fictive device?

Gigantic rents in the sky,
A speck of sand in your eye,
I’m like a creature that has wings and yet refuses to fly.

Well that’s nice,
But what do you know about current publishing trends?
Do you start work on a sequel as soon as one story ends?

I’m like a murder scene played backwards until nobody dies,
Gotta keep this shit tight,
Like a CD track at night,
Played in a car with engine idling that’s stopped at traffic lights.

Well you’re certainly creative, so there’s no problem there,
But you’ve still given us no reason for the reader to care…

Oh, I am nothing to you,
But you are something to me,
For I dwell in a space too far for even Hubble to see,
And your existence is the stars that light up my night sky,
Without the stars I’d be alone and have no reason to try.

these hills are a place

where it is always night

not the mean blackness

some knights possess

but a diffuse sort of darkness

lit by the distant pin-pricks

of exploding gas

and the moon

catching the light

from an unseen sun

and dripping it like honey

such that these hills

and this ever-night

is lit by milky amber

hues that carry the promise

of magic

the poet sits
on a simple throne
made of stone

for you he waits
he waits for no one
you are no one

oh how I long to shed
this absurd
existence
like a dessicated corpse
swaddled in cloth
to tear free from
and scream from
the start to the end

the clanging is louder
it keeps coming closer
on rickety rails
like an old rollercoaster
i’m supposed to remember
my cup runneth over
it’s not filled with riches
but just diet cola

i see major
things dream
major things
make wagers
forget faces
like time
wastes us
away
case of
delay
traces
the way
makes us
the way
we are
the stuff
from stars
the dust
from stars
the rust
on cars
the rust
on tins
and jars
shattered like scars
shattered like dreams
broken like kings
broken like wings
on birds that fall
beyond the wall