This is something I found written in the back of a book.


July23,2001

They say you seem like someone
from a movie
thus they call you 'Lance'
with a tinged

swift switch of the eyes

lust love hate
flash

'You're humbler." he says
after telling you about
Genghis Khan's
righteous wrath
killing forty million

all said as a challenge

some people are mirrors
others see
two-dimensional versions
of themselves

counting
to none

I don't know what it means
but I like it

Savory Rose

she says you
speak unlike anyone
I know speaks
a beautiful sentence
and I know she
means it
she speaks with eyes and voice
and nervous
hands
a loved
but broken
idol
meaning

honey you are fucking
angry
young yeah
not
too late
never marry me
but for me
be a believer
listen

I was born in the seventies and lived

through the eighties

from groovy

to Reagan

VavAvoom.

she wrote me
the girl from the dating site
to say
she was a transvestite
did I mind
and even if so
can we still be friends
don't we have fun talking
and flirting on IM
fuck
was my first thought
dude
my second
went for a walk
slipped on a puddle
hit my head on the sidewalk
dazed for a second
out of focus
eyes focused finally
on a full Moon
stood up an walked
until I realized
I didn't know where I was
walking

the House always wins

freefalling stops
with a bounce.

Icarus not lost at sea
but down on the rocks

upon which he is broken
and then redeemed.

now I see myself as Daedalus
the Father warning his son.

you give them wings
without which

there is no ascent
and no falling.

while not yet a father
but after crashing

I am rising
not wind-blown

and not
weightless either.

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the Brothers K
I call them
one's a musician
one's a historian
both
server's assistants
angry
in different ways
the youngest a dropout
GED recipient
and a degree holder
from a local University
the older
a classically trained guitarist
a songwriter
one semester left
when he quit college
the younger fights
while the oldest fucks
they both drink themselves
oblivious nightly
come to work
complaining
the boss is stupid
the owner is an asshole
its all bullshit
bullshit bullshit
most everyone else
to them is dumb
brothers bound
by love and hatred
and a desire
for self-annihilation
last night
at a work party
one smashed a glass
one went to the hospital
both came to work today
sheepish
ashamed
uncertain
the oldest was restrained
while they checked his wound
the youngest afraid
he had gone too far
both
crumbling and shuffling
through the night
like shadows
I watched them
thinking
both are better
than they know

do you think
that I don't

treasure and
honor

and love
you

well
you are



yelling
right now

I thought you just
wanted

me home
that you

loved
and missed me

well
that's how I felt

before
you got

here
exchanging false kisses



old tricks tried
without

success
mostly silence

and a shared
disturbance

drifting
towards sleep

with a sneer