First, they uprooted the still-strong tree that I used to climb when I used
to live there.

The hole that it left in the dirt looked like a mass grave without the lime.
It took a while to fill, cuz the ground kept sinking (the way that a kid's
shoulders sag when he's beaten for speaking).

Then, they just let the whole place fall to shit, like some old uncle in a
wheelchair near the beach, gathering driftwood he might one day have carved
into a ship if only the damned wheels wouldn't stop turning.

Now, they're just gonna tear down the whole fucking house because the wood
is rotting.

At least the old dirt's still there, unsagging. Hard fucking dirt, that
Texas clay. I'd tried to dig to China, but the only place it got me was the
shower.

Which broke a long fucking time ago, I guess.





-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of bronnie
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 10:35 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [X] a planet of treetops


under music, bending waves,
falling backwards, gently,
thin, wet leaves, and prickles
drinking liquor-thin starlight
and citrus divine
underneath balm, and dark green eyes,
and air makes this thick, and moody,
and minding, and trickling,
and twisting; and flying between
Drunken Steps and maroon camouflage,

and there's not a dry eye
in the place, i swear,
when you set down and finally
grieve for this, live through this,
trying-times-conquer this,
and time life and manage these
ages gone by.

can you mourn for it, really?
all that lost sunshine, and twilight arcadia,
and rocks breaking rocks in gaping excitement,
and the last breath of corelight
is filed away slowly, and gives off steam
through a small little hole;
and i can't end this, not really,
without setting myself down
in defeated entropy
sprawling out on the ground
and melting, benignly


-bronnie


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