LOVE POEM
for Elise
let what was elect what is // rut / straddle / list // we did / we’re in / it doesn’t end / we did / we do / it lets us be both here and then / it’s this / we did / we’re right again // let what was elect what is // gut / strata / gist // says yes / says flesh / is what we went / with layers in layers / is soil on rock / biome in biome / is this in this / fresh impressed essence // let what was elect what is // love / heat / feed // what we’re in / now and there / are and were / always on / so long in / oils us / scrolls through / you me / me you // there was a time I knew / and knew you knew / it’s no less acute / now every day it is again / renewed / where we’re here / to get / together / a reminder / to remind us / why us / why this / why we let what is select what’s next
SCREENAGE ANGST
HAS PAID OFF WELL
not on twitter so I waste these characters on biopic plots the woke bots won’t slot into your weekend mustwatch // at the refinery gates a band gathers / workers or concerned citizens / I can’t read their signs / their hands shake from neuropathy or cold / brinewaft off the tankered bay / I offer coffee but they decline / there’s no protest / they say / the company pays us to picket so locals passing by will think someone’s fighting / for what / we’re supposed to answer vaguely / working conditions / air quality / one of them reminds me of an old friend / gone now in the classic way / who got arrested protesting construction of a parking lot on a sacred site / he used to say there’s no such thing as a prehistoric cave painting or a market-based solution // dear fragmented audiences of parallel media realities in the blogosphere / this is depression / your first episode is free / imagine action as a ritual of belonging keeping you alive killing us all in two dimensions
