pt. 1
Trickle through
baby made of sand
You have been deprived
You have been deceived
Everything is different now
You will not become a star
-
Near the clouds
two violet eyes
watch you
without being watched
You move a lint roller
over your coat
to remove dog cells
You plug in your earbuds
and every few seconds
your eyes open
This is a microchip and there are
no more watercolors in the world
-
Every morning
sun spins
your eyes open
you re-try
You are a robot
again
Mother Nature
loves you forever
at the crest of the sidewalk
Your phone rings
You try to answer
but you're too distracted
Your shadow is sending you
another wire
The sidewalk oozes
gray sidewalk
You don't notice because you haven't taken
out your earbuds
-
This is a microchip and there are
no more watercolors in the world
I spilled orange juice on my shirt
It was a great tragedy
Did you spill orange juice on your shirt
Was it a great tragedy?
At the crest of the mirror
a piece of you vibrates
You are trying to ignore
trying to convincing yourself
it's just a photo of
your family
It's just a spaceship
That's why
it oscillates
-
You yell at your looking gla**—
a cloud of digital dust—
you sing to your dog
I AM A ROBOT
YOU ARE MY ROBOT DOG!
PLEASE KNOW WHAT
I'M TALKING ABOUT
PLEASE
KNOW IF I'M TALKING ABOUT!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You urinate and go
into your bedroom
You are researching a body
You comb Google
till you reach the dregs
and examine
a graveyard
a calendar in small d**hs
word d**hs
decayed unfinished super-egos
Outside
the robots are putting gas in their cars
silently laughing in their
voice machines
(because they are robots)
Litter is everywhere
The robots are proud to have
littered everywhere
-
This is it
A radio leaks
from the clouds
irritates shells
There are no more statements
to be made
There are more empty
ramen packages
more coke cans
than there are salmon
Near the wall
a glowing rectangle
Is this why you're crying?
-
You can watch
any movie you want
You can attach an antenna
to your head
and be an airplane
or a pilot
You spend your whole life
in the same place
translating
an alkaline image
The window opens
you are engulfed
This is it
It becomes a
graveyard
You are eating lettuce
on a pillar in the desert
You could be an airplane
You could be a monk
pt. 2
Moon Circle Moon Circle Moon
I am summoning the moon
into my room
to attack me
with cameras made of crystal
and tears
There are overflowing windows
on my screen
This is a dream I had
This is murmurs in my heart
because I play a game where sand
changes color as it falls
and I play a game pressing bu*tons
making people explode
I am ashamed
-
I would like to know
can I print a bible
without losing dollars
Can I put dollars in a tube
to turn into a bible
Can I print a Jesus candle
and light it with my eyes
Can I light my printed Jesus candle
with light?
My printer is out of ink
which makes everything wet
-
Moon Circle Moon
Transmit me
what the night holds
I am questing for more portals
I glimpsed one in a long code
because I was squinting
from across the room
I have listened to records
backwards forwards
Have you seen
beams of light
near walls of buildings?
Please Moon
are you jumping over the world
or just trying to make me cry?
-
My fingernails are crystal balls
I see no future human hand
I am wearing a diaper
waiting for you to walk in
Where have you been?
Your robot dog is a better poet
than me
The television and lights
have stopped working
The dishes are oozing
gray sidewalk
On a tinted blue monitor
your neck turns and looks
at the color of the house
Because the monitor is tinted blue
everything is tinted blue
-
Look at the tally marks
This is Day Twelve
and I have not slept
Look me in the eyes
Your robot dog is conspiring
to murder me
He has a friend
I heard the friend flush
the toilet
I saw him in the hallway
His entire body was glowing phosphor
When he saw me he let
a snarl
through a digital jaw
I tried not to worry
All my Legos were gone
-
Moon Circle
Where have all the watercolors gone
I never want to see a swamp
ever again
What happened to the horse
I made when I was fourteen
and confused
If I lie down
beneath a thunderstorm
I would like to wash away
I would like to be a saint
and cry all over myself
There are no more watercolors
in the world
The crow told me so
-
Moon
The screen is gone
Every dog
is running back to bite me
I placed my hand between the edges
of the window
It burned and did not burn at all
Please Moon transmit
what you have recorded
Digital dust coming down
One Two Three Four Five
Beam Beam Light Light
Robots Please Caw Caw
Violet Eyes Flash Caw Caw
Caw Lord Beep Beep
Lord Blink Blink Flash Flash
Blink Flash Lord