what was that? is that all there is? who is this? this is it.

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diagonal lines drawn with a ruler

October 24, 2009

I know not where I’m going    
like leaf blowers blowing or little kids screaming
it’s not so annoying when it’s in another language
take it to the mezzanine   broadcast it from the balcony
it’s all there     it’s all in your phrenology
ask the glow-in-the-dark plastic magnetic Virgin Mary
what you are looking at is unlike anything you’ve ever seen
there’s a whole world waiting just beyond that fake wood paneling
the way things are      the way things used to be
Is that all there is?  What was that?  Who is this?  This is it  
it goes   I know that it goes   but I know not where it goes
it just goes away one day       never to return
one final sunset receding behind your hairline  
diagonal lines drawn with a ruler
crossing off each day from the calendar
routine       no questions asked   
hard work  gets you more hard work
do what you love and the money will follow
that thing you love right out the window
window shopping   knowing we won’t be buying anything
just looking and talking and pointing    and then
eating it cold from the can         that’ll do
wandering the canyons of the cityscape
free-ranging journey or goal-oriented mission
each face focused in the framework of its reality
in the façades   the false fronts    the curtain walls  
searching for a patch of grass to contact the earth

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Walt Whitman said...

They go! they go! I know that they go, but I know not where they go, But I know that they go toward the best - toward something great.

Posted October 25, 2009 06:32 PM | Reply to this comment

cat said...

we contain multitudes.

Posted November 8, 2009 12:17 PM | Reply to this comment

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