Friday, April 5, 2024

Poem for Performers

1.

I wonder every day about you. I let you into my precious unpaid dream time––twice. Irreplicable unplaceable implacable untraceable: we send each other over the edge. 

        You make my edges important 

        You give them their definition

        Like language you give me use

        Like meaning you live in my usage

        For the love of god

        You

2.

Improvise your hope aboard secret escape vehicle. Steal your way home. Lie tomorrow. View me truly, laid flat-first in my own dirt. Get on the train reaching for magic like a bully in bed––and be your tormentee laying on a pillowy breath. 

3.

The conversation you have today will not be the conversation you hear tomorrow. 

4.

Don't be mad at your landlord; you live in his house. He lives in our house. They pay my rent. 

5.

Together you lift my eyes toward light-filled globes meandering timelessly on gravity's unresearched stage. We're sold out but come anyway, we'll get everyone in.