don't read this please

1. I remember a feast. A table top crammed with every kind of food I never liked. I ate it all (but a few scraps for the dog), brushed the crumbs off my lap, pet the dog, washed my hands, turned on the TV and dozed off.

2. I tolerate the saxophone every now and then. Most of the time it's when I'm at the end of Thunder Road and it almost makes me smile then.

3. I can't promise I will ever tell the truth, but I usually do. Number 1 is obviously false because I don't have a dog and I don't really like them all that much anyway.

4. I might not have told the truth in number 3 because I might like dogs. It's possible.

5. I wonder if dogs like saxophones, or if saxophones piss off the dogs...

6. When I was 12 or something I cried because I saw my friend smoking a cigarette which is funny to think about because I might actually cry today if I don't have a cigarette (which is likely, because I don't have any).

7. I don't know anything about the future... obviously I am not going to cry tonight. That means I am more of a liar than I thought. If I keep talking like I do, people might catch on to the fact that I don't actually know anything about this or you or that or them.

8. And Number 7: for the record, I know I'm not stupid I just understand that it's very hard to know anything.

9. Ok, I'm a little bit stupid... or at least I'm not as smart as I'd like to be.

10. None of this is an attempt to be logical. None of this is expected to be insightful.

11. I was born with a copper skull. What does that mean?

12. I was going to go all the way to number 17 or 20 or 25 or 27 but I'm stopping at 12 because I hate finishing things.

13. I mean, I hate doing things the way that I had originally planned because thats just so boring.

recycled words in twelve zodiacal chapters

12:22 am
3/22/07
Sun in Aries

I went home last night
This morning I woke up as a baby
with a message from an earth friend
it's a beautiful day
and I'm so glad
to be back

(I remember grass in 9 colors.
I remember squirming on the floor;
my knees tight with panic.
The sky was hanging low that morning...
I remember you in 2 colors.
Like the mountains:
like the sea.)

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8:12 pm
5/19/07
Sun in Taurus.

a wrinkly skinned man
turns his fingers slowly 'round
an imaginary doorknob
in front of him

as days pass,
his body slowly folds
until his forehead touches
the grass and eventually
melts right in

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7:45 pm
5/30/07
Sun in Gemini.

FOR HATE:
I have killed
I have died

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3:27 pm
7/15/07
Sun in Cancer.

A Jackass came to the farm today wearing blue dockers shorts and tall white socks.
He told his children that they couldn't go see the donkey because he heard thunder.
They went inside and ate donuts. 10 minutes later it started raining and it was beautiful.

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1:58 am
8/18/07
Sun in Leo.

There are wings in the attic
restless, like me
There are words up there
beating on the windows

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8:16 pm
9/10/07
Sun in Virgo.

From seven to eight: I spent an hour in the crypt
to blur the border between image and script
and there are things I know I'll never know
though if there's one thing that I'm sure of...
I'll be damned if I let her go

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11:32 am
9/27/07
Sun in Libra.

I dream of airports; high security
and gardens; somewhere to flee to
someday I'll take that morning bus
that will bring me home to you
and we'll go sailing
just you and me

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2:00 am
10/23/07
Sun in Scorpio.

I listened hard for silence in the crashing waves of traffic going by my window
but I'm not fast enough to hear it
I've been trying to find a surface that I won't slip off of
a steady ledge, maybe something to hold onto
I am scouting the wilderness for that kneeling landscape
that will re-open my heart
and feed color to my eyes

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8:12 pm
12/6/07
Sun in Sagittarius.

I, He, I, She, I, The Breath, I
the living, the lively, the dying, the lost
drink of this cup, eat of this bread
all you lovely, all you lonely
all you children, dance with me
I, You, I, We, I, The Dance, I

Cry out, "Oh, My Lord!"
Cry out to me, and know
that you are my Love.

Child, know that you are my Love.

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7:54 pm
1/13/05
Sun in Capricorn

Summer wind stirs music in my heart
Words burst from the night sky
A brave song for
You

Desire makes willows creak and
All I am is wild longing

Thrashing leaves against
Battered
Timbers

Two in love become
One moon
Dancing in a field of stars

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9:40 pm
3/1/07
Sun in Aquarius

wet sky: cold wind
I remember grass in 9 colors
and smell the ghosts of earthworms

slow panic: grinding stones
all these half filled notebooks
and blunted pencils taking up space

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3:16 am
3/9/08
Sun in Pisces.

oh future child, you've grown too weak
but your hands never get as cold as your feet


3/14/07

"you remind me of Jesus" I sputtered.

She looked at me through the water with her eyes open wide, breathing out bubbles, her hair gracefully dancing toward the surface. "you remind me of matchbox cars".


3/20/06

In love, I am reborn into the sky
the universe has never felt so safe
the stars have never been so bright

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