lose weight a moment of perfect opacity
in which i saw nothing--you
only opened your mouth to
put a cigarette on your lip
stop procrastinating
when i dropped the coin on
your grave i never thought
you'd be back to haunt me
write a book especially smelling so much
like death. a lot happened
(but there was never anyone
fall in love else there will never be anyone
anyone else) i traveled, wrote--
i never stopped to think,
be happy and i ended up with a life
always unsatisfactory. yea,
it was a blind man's journey
get a tattoo punctuated but empty-- &
when the caped man comes
i won't beg him for the life
i've been ignoring the past
go on a road trip
with no predetermined thirty
destination seven
years.
drink more water
things sneak up on you. faster
as the days shorten, the
travel the world temperature can't hold its own
imagine if the plants forgot
why they hold their leaves
get married to the sun, day after day
the plants can't see
into the next five seconds
perhaps our curse is that we can
see past the next five minutes.