I woke up on the first day
peter painting the complete works of picasso on my fingernails he tells me that every thing you've ever loved is waiting for you in heaven except for the thing that you loved most he says you'd think most people would lose their lovers but often it's more mundane things: fame anonimity masturbation an italian leather sofa I woke up on the first day angels kissing sweetbread breath into me I climbed to the top of the mountain of men who loved me went fatty dipping in the cherry coke ocean I couldn't find you anywhere I woke up on the first day rusell said it was time for me to start working to earn my keep something I never realized I loved I took a job organizing the holy filing cabinets a room full of sulfur desires and secrets never spoken tomorrow I'll look for your name in my file I woke up on the first day next to wyatt who'd told me he loved me more than anything in life we fuck for hours and for the first time his tongue is satin acid free his file says he sacrificed his venom what did I lose? I woke up on the first day on a boat made of chicken fingers floating on a sea of honey mustard today's job was to sort conundrums the rulebook says if person i loves person u above everything else but person u cherished spotlight time fishing for compliments more than he loved person i then the two shall be joined wholly for holy eternity but while person u will spend each day frustrated that person i doesn't remember who person u is person i will be content to be loved by anyone I write the equation in the bull pupil of guernica on my left thumbnail I woke up on the first day skipping seashells across the fields of your braces and for the first time wondered where you were I woke up on the first day nervous about my new job organizing the holy filing cabinets I was turning my torn cuticles over my tongue when I noticed the complete works of picasso were painted on my fingernails in the bovine pupil of guernica I saw an equation I'd written the other day there have been other days? I woke up today scanned my fingernails for information today at work I found my file with your name in it cross referenced it with your file my name was there I woke up today between the pages of a Tom Robbins book I saw Jason wandering around an unnecessary comma he didn't remember me I'm touched at work I found a loophole if I squint I can almost see you through it I woke up today to the sound of graham playing bright eyes songs on an acoustic guitar he was flat the guitar was sharp I rode a cloud of your ashes to work was pleased to remember how much I loved blank paper and typing I rewrote our files you will never again experience the joy of being eaten by sharks I will have to spend the rest of eternity not having the complete works of maya angelou read to me by telemarketers you were standing next to me just like you've always been Tomorrow I'll quit my job and we'll go rappelling down the side of hundertwasser haus drink from the misunderstood spring of crystal pepsi but today I have to finish my work First I stretch time around me like an elastic waistband begin editing the desires of everyone who's ever lost anything important jason will forget the lyrics to all of yoko ono's songs my mother will never again be confronted by a rabid squirrel person i won't even be able to imagine the word calculus person u will sacrifice his love of having cookie jars dropped on his head by lecherous giraffes and everyone inbetween gets back everything in life that they cherished in exchange for losing things like the ability to spell onomatopoeia guacamole enemas bacne remembering watching a loved one die I'm in the middle of changing ray charles's desire from "to lose my blindness" to "to lose my car keys in a vat of bacon grease" when The File Keeper enters I sweat saccharine which you lick off I woke up on the first day we had enough arms to hold on to everything we've ever loved Link Leave a comment | 5 comments Thu, Aug. 12th, 2004 01:33 am (local) kaphineWow. Thank you for writing and posting that. Link Thread - Delete - Spam - Screen - Freeze - Track This - Reply Select: Thu, Aug. 12th, 2004 01:51 am (local) akamuuThanks for reading it. 8) Link Parent - Thread - Edit - Delete - Screen - Freeze - Track This - Reply Select: Thu, Aug. 12th, 2004 06:46 am (local) chris_wassI enjoyed it too. Link Parent - Thread - Delete - Spam - Screen - Freeze - Track This - Reply Select: Thu, Aug. 12th, 2004 06:04 am (local) natawn84has that sndpaper beauty you just can't get enough of. Link Thread - Delete - Spam - Screen - Freeze - Track This - Reply Select: Sat, Aug. 21st, 2004 07:50 am (local) anseliciouswhy the hell didn't you do this at the slam? it's my favorite thing you've written in quite a while.
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