I am not so comfortable
with words, now that we
have stopped bothering
to scream them. I will look
and you will look, and we
will look at each other
from across a couch,
disgusted. I can make you
a picture; that's all I can do
because we all know I am
a fraud. I am not

- an activist

I am not much of anything
these days, and it's fine. I
watch the TV and it seeps.
My eyes are like buckets
and the world is all sloshy
liquid, pouring itself inside.
It will slither around any walls
we put up. This is either
beautiful or tragic, but
I am not afraid of you or
your alleged ambivalence.

All these words are stupid
I am tired of writing them,
and they never convince you
of anything, least of all
the knowledge of me that
you should have by now.

We don't agree on anything
and all I do is annoy you
and nothing serves to interrupt
this fact; not the poems
or the moon or the beaches
in the afternoon, where people
are huddled in blankets and
grayish sand is scattering by
the winds of crashing waves
and the people are squinting
to keep the sand out of their eyes
trying to light cigarettes as leaves
are coming on the shore-
Just a rainy day, really; but one
of the girls has their hair crawl
up in the wind, like an arm
and it catches the tiniest of leaves.

Really nothing special, after all.



-e.









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