Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Well I just need to let myself fall down (ai writing dump)
The SOng CLub by Ministry app never mentioned
Zoroaster Crab Cherub
I tried to drink it away
I tried to put one in the air
I tried to dance it away
I tried to change it with my hair
And know that I can make a new head
Like I can a new pair of arms
Like I can a new head
Like I can a new pair of arms
Like I can a new head
drones assemble me
into a zoroaster crab cherub
with peacock antenna rings
I ran my credit card bill up
Thought a new dress would make it better
I tried to work it away
But that just made me even sadder
Dr. Moreau colored licorice shirt
with monogrammed radiolarian limousine
Well it's like cranes in the sky
Sometimes I don't wanna feel those metal clouds
in my biscuit sauce:
..
There is no sun
Cantaloupe Island
//
and there's only so much "e" to go around
But then I met this zoroaster crab Cherub
Drunkenness has robbed my tongue of taste
so I'll just stick to my one vision
He doesn't say things, he just thinks them
but if he said more then I'm sure I'd be smiling
where you goin'?
Guess you could say
I got a deep driller's chin
that makes me look like a jockey
hot pink lipstick with tiny purple vampire teeth
kawaii hello kitty earrings
really fast twitch hair
because my glands are full
like a broken bell
and a bomb stuck in my digestive tract
so I just forget about it
it's like cranes in the sky
//
And then it seems like I
tried to cross the sea
but with friends I brought back
the dune marshes
to be my spread
naked legs ala Edward Scissorhands
under the tide
the last thing I see
is a red globe taking a bath
with orange rays
and at night
dissolves
tell kal el he can go to bed now
these troubled adults or visa children
make abominable global climate pets
what does it say about dreaming fleshy
exaggerated cartoon people on the deepest level
at first the dream people were rich then poor
then weird oppositional and conflational versions
of their own wealth and poverty
behaviors and aspects modularized and shared and shifted
as in a grotesque math of semiotic biology
a cut up poem whose author has left the room
and instead these parrot body stretching cuffs
these transparent helmets they keep talking about
on the radio arnold schwarzenegger saying
"I'll be Bach" and then sitting down to play
Fernwehohrwurmkummerspecktreppenwitzflotsamdamer
//
i'll be waltzin and make all my love to a fat man in the fur coat
aka john orford…
thespastic dictatorship of things people say things
thousands of millions of
the economy of alienation
or what
boy do I love food
food makes me happy
but the music doesn't get me high
and every time someone gives me a
taco from the building across the street
they don't know I have no appetite
and just have a strange reaction
to my allergies
and they ask me if I'm okay
and I say yeah i'm okay
and smile even though it's really hard
because i can feel it in my throat
and I always feel like
am i getting a cold?
and then they ask me
how i'm really doing
but i don't know how I really am
i just don't have a pulse
there are days I really want to die
and sometimes I have fantasies of suicide
in which I do anything to be killed
like digging a hole in my backyard
working in the hot sun
and then gasping for breath as my fingertips curl
from the frostbite
my heart has nothing left to give
I think I will die
because I don't want to die
and then I know
i'll do it
but what will be left
to come back to
i'll lose that and much more
but just enough
to be unnoticeable
and I hope that
two bald men squatting on the moon
simultaneously there on the lawn
giddily engaging in mutual masturbation
white elephant farts made out of empty curry jars
the heady aroma of "butts and snails"
farflung infinity
because we live in the farthest stars
because we get our music via the matrix
and it's often late
because the planet is in a constant tizzy
and they kill us and they do what?
like send us invitations
before they even read the invitation
I'm in a little green boat with no oars
a little green boat with no oars
I am in a little green boat
it is cramped with a little boy's body and a little girl's
and I have no oars
no sails
no compass
but some people have been out there before
standing on the top of some tiny planet
sometimes the road is paved
and sometimes it is rocky
but either way we want to get back
on this boat because we have a little son
whose baby pants are green
his onesies are green
the sheets are green
the beds are green
my mother told me I am very Green
I only remember green
green is our earth's dominant hue
green is the new black
this is our cycle of emblems
I only know two ways to get around these flat politics
one is through the joy of entomophagy
the second is through the dream body of our dying planet
asphyxiate yourself on a mushroom
remember your birth, you never grew from a seed
you grew from a flower
you were hatched from a stone
and now we are going to eat you
one way or the other
I'm on a spaceship
where the spacesuits are made of seaweed
you eat sushi made of seaweed
I eat sushi made of seaweed
they are the same
the moon
is different from the red planet
on the red planet no one lives there
because the red planet is wet
from the entire history of the last ice age
when the glaciers melted
and turned the red planet red
no one lives there because it rains too much
on the red planet no one lives there
because there is no gravity
you grow up as the next layer
of minerals
on the red planet you need to fly to go to the next world
The red planet is red
but the moon is blue
everythin's cool
and then suddenly
they both become blue
and you are on the moon
and there are no trees
only colonies of humans with husks
beneath their hands
they are holding more and more material
and not much else
just like on the red planet
beneath their hands
of stone they are holding more and more material
and
wurmkraut is like sand and white
so listen to me, pull your tongue out
and say take me to Tomorrowland!
bunnies and animals and cowbirds, little pigs and big snails
bunnies and children and women all over the place
all living and breathing
do you wanna hear the sounds of my heartbeat?
what part of me can you reach?
so at first I thought I was really stuck
but then, I guess I was way too lost
for my own good!
YUPHATE! EH?
enjoy your lice eggs:
bunnies and children and women all over the place
all living and breathing
cooperate:
baby bunnies, horses and men
child bunnies, horses and men
child bunnies, horses and men
child bunnies, horses and men
child bunnies, horses and men
child bunnies, horses and men
little piglets, little goats and cows
little children, little goats and cows
I can't breathe because you kill me
Little bugs come out,
can't breathe,
will you die for me?
Will you die for me?
Will you die for me?
Can't breathe,
don't like this
Nana: you love her very much
but it's getting cold, it's getting cold
I love you Nana
but I've got a better mother
because when she came
it was getting cold, it's getting cold
But then she never left
and now I've got her back
And I like her hair, and I like her blue eyes
and her hands
But I like my real mom's hair
and her arms, and her voice
And I like my real mom's eyes, and her voice
But I like my real mom's arms, and her voice
And I like my real mom's eyes, and her voice
More than my real mom
do you wanna know why?
Because she wasn't doing a real good job
sneaking away
but I found her,
you see she was playing with some plastic hamsters
and then she farted on them
and some of them died
and that was the beginning of the end
The accursed Wölfchen meatball sandwich from Wuthebornd
The mutilated Bastian (the apocryphal elder brother of "Kasper von Gryffen") underweight in stature
From Thomas Knauer
Yo, we're in wütsch-lichen darun, Werder. Do you have any cornmeal?
Ars moriendi est. Man diehöre in unbedachten Nächten mit gemalten Augen zu reiten. Man träumt von Sinnlosen. Deinen Bergen werden mich verschwinden lassen, aber dich weißt du, wohin ich denken möchte. Zu groß sein will ich, aber zu klein, ohne viel viel. Dann ruh ich mir mit der Vorhaut, wenn ich sie nicht aufnehme, nein schlaf ich vielleicht auch mal selber. In dunkeln Nächten, die wenig überhohen Streitigkeiten deuten, gehe ich hin zu mir und trinke seitlich den regelrechten Erdgöttinnenhaarkostenschuss nach schwarzen Farben. Du schöst mir bei der Arbeit kalt-weißen neulich im Hafen. Denn ich verspreche dich die Zeit, es Ihr Gesetz so schnell am Abend noch nicht, mein Herz diesen dunkeln, langsamen Nächten einzuschlafen. Du kannst das nur als seine Lieblingszeile im "Tante" sehen. Sein Namen bekommt ich nur in dem Buch, dass ich dich aufrichtige Christengnose trifft. Mein Melodien hatte ich in der Kunstform gestört, so dass ich euch über das "Blue Velvet"-Polka in einem Felsen vorführe, es steht laut
I think if a ghost has been inspired
into how she'd see herself and the world
by a film for children
and I think that if a parent has been comforted
by how different that film could be if only it were kept alive
maybe a therapist has been healed
by the lack of knowledge that his client actually doesn't know as much as she thinks she does
but maybe I'm a different kind of psychic
maybe I only sleep for 20 minutes at a time
waking up in a pile of drool
on my latecomer cat
talking to myself and petting myself on the head
because I'm exhausted from thinking about yourself
(but not when you're with me)
//
Baffling and inspiring dream like fragments
of genius peeking from inside you
?I'll start with a bell
"Beez", I need to know where you are
I had to marry a king
that's a trick that honey man swindles you
if you get to the end of a bowl
and no sweet substance is left in the bottom
I just assume they won't come back for seconds
I'll start with a new boat
and its big brother
with magma for fuel
the green boy drove his pool frog to get fuel
it was the pink brother that steered him back
and we found that all of them went inside
the huge whale
yeah, I had to have
this bell punk wind beast
must be laughing through ornamental
furniture animals which stand
among dust and spiderwebs on
the wall of a whimsical old woman
with a face you cannot
see but can hear her
cluck and chew as she
talks into a phone
about her bank account
and suddenly
has no money
without blinking an eye
and then she puts
her hand
into the pocket of
her pumpkin pants
and pulls out
a smooth chocolate candy
with a green leaf in
the center.
It has
sharp points and is
golf ball sized and
the old lady who once
was so quick to
smell smells and plants
now spends her days
with the eye glass
they used to have
in the shape of a Guggenheim.
Have you ever
watched this woman?
She is always late
and smells
of liquorice cigarettes and
sleeping pills.
Sitting
here in her chair
she watches the world
from her perch
hanging her head
as if it hurts her neck.
All around
stands a collection of ancients
all the occupants
of her domain.
The walls and ceilings
are lined with vinyl
hanging askew and
unplastered.
Is this where
the houses used
to be?
All filled with occupants
too sick or dead to move?
Why doesn't she
even clean
the toilet?
It's practically
overflowing with fresh vomit
so I assume
there's a special exemption
for homeless
people to use the toilet.
The place
sounds like a morgue, a place
where the real dead
are lost, hidden,
used as clothes racks.
The earth
begins to quake with her hands
biting the phone.
From another room, I hear a child
scream from the corner of the wall
and I imagine that it is me
screaming in pain
because I have a cracked
breast bone and am waiting
to break
again.
Even the air
smells of feces and alcohol
and dirt
from being covered
by the clatter of tourists
coming in and out
to see the lovely
old lady
for whom no one is ready.
Why is this place so awful?
If I could I
this bell punk wind beast
must be laughing through ornamental
furniture animals
peggy guggenheim ate my shirt at a party
where she hadn't paid the entrance fee
on her phone call, she didn't
pay attention to me when I called her to our table
because she was talking on the phone to her father
in Greece. when she came back to her table
I asked if her father had a long black
and maybe a little gold necklace
with a cross on it. no, Peggy said
and then she gave me a kiss.
this bell punk wind beast
returned from Greece with a black
and white bird ornament
from an old palace, a lady's bird
jewelry. you can take a photo
but it doesn't come close to the real thing.
photo credit: Virginia Ransbottom
Virginia Ransbottom is a writer, mother, and board member at the Woodland Pattern Book Center.
Here are more of her poems:
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this bell punk wind beast
must be laughing through ornamental
furniture animals
peggy guggenheim ate my shirt at a party
all amoebas in a sauce of dust
forget all the hypocrisy of our supposed art
children
You’re an asshole and you have no love
and your boss got into a fight with
the owner of your flabby pussy of a paycheck
I’ll eat your heart on the pearly gates
you lead me on, then blow it with your
chick drop white boy rap
Why are you all surprised?
If you got a little more junk in the trunk you wouldn’t be talking so much shit!
Ever wondered why I never date girls? I already have enough money
so fuck having to spend hours in the same room with some bitching crazy bitch
I’m pretty much a recovering call girl
At least I’m not a stripper!
Money brings pain and women are for sale!
Well that’s it, I’m done!
Diane, you ain’t a bad lay!
(Claire: !!!!!!!)
Hey,
The last line was definitely all in my head. I may not have written it but it sure as shit does come from somewhere.
It’s not really a song and not really a verse. I kind of just tried to go over my head and try to make it as crazy as I could.
“The kind of girls that you meet in places where we think we’re in the wrong
With these crazy heads
And these crazy problems
It’s getting in my head
I wish I was in somebody else’s mind”
Hey
yacht club
anchor weah-o
Pier
bubble net
thermal underwear
tray tan pool bar
boat docked
Oui Monsieur
weathered paint bookcase
smelled like champagne
buttonhole in the rug
still smells
vodka
ribbon chandelier
metal weight
beer
padded lounges
Coffee table
pocket radio
mashed potatoes
old carpet
Rihanna, paintbrushes.
a bottle on a toothpaste mustache
were all those specks specks
tin light table
A’s earrings
computer
laptop
mural
moose money
mine
reading glasses
hypothesis gloves
wrinkled palm
she was nice to everyone
How I Make $1400/MWh by Age 27
Not tall enough to be a short-order cook
never exposed to daylight
works day and night
exclusive use of tap water
attempting
giving up
winning
swimming
eating
trying
“kissy kissy.”
Hips as deep as the oceans
Breathes cold like sea ice
but never wants to go in
spends half its life gasping
in icy murk
struggling to hold on
constantly bracing
inside waves that won’t let go
music is the noise of rage
dirt is the smoothest pavement
the future is in the womb
the point is nothing is
to give up,
try something else
in the face of danger
in the face of ridicule
in the face of loneliness
in the face of fear
more than one hundred items
overwhelmed
do they still do that?
step up to the plate
wait for the pitch
with all your might
try to live up to expectations
understand your worth
consider future possibilities
recognize opportunities to grow
think about your presence
think about the future
have faith
do what you know
don’t lose your identity
Live your dreams
be who you want to be
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Is your skrollorbazing old self a part of a vast complex a century ago? You should probably take a pill or go to a head doctor. So it is with great respect that you read this: straight from the interview, shall we say, with Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court George Bălăceanu:Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court George Bălăceanu has been famous throughout the ages in Romania for his politicized speeches. In Romania, everyone knows his secret. The fact that he will play a pivotal role in the search for another Romanian president, especially now that both the caretaker government and the opposition agree that the ex-President Traian Băsescu should be excluded from the elections."Tribunism, just like fascism, derives from within our history. Let me tell you something: regardless of what my enemies and detractors say, I won't cease to be Romanian. Even though I've grown old, I've grown rich, but I'm Romanian, and I'm Romanian because I still believe in Romania's future and its prosperity," Bălăceanu said in May 2011, when he was seeking re-election as the Constitutional Court chief, before he was unanimously rejected by the National Liberal Party, the National Liberal
Civic duty
Guilty pleasures
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Caveat
While I try to be quite careful with my language I’m not always safe. If it looks like I’m coming on too strong, please walk away. Or just stop reading.
Here’s the story behind “Barlinnie Nuts.” As you can see, my notes read as follows.
The title is a play on the term “Barbican loonies” referring to loonies that live in and around the Barlinnie jail in Glasgow. Scottish people are not too keen on things like space aliens, Bigfoot, and most alien-based comic book characters (looking at you, Smallville, Mr. Singh), but loonies are more palatable.
Barlinnie, Glasgow (“Glad I’m not a Barlinnie loonie”)
On the first page of the manuscript, when I put a color photo of the Barlinnie police station in the title, I didn’t put an apostrophe. But the title seemed off. So I added an apostrophe. Then I added a hyphen and a period, like a typical grown-up.
And that was the problem. Because “Barlinnie Nuts” turned out to be less a title than it was a fully fledged story and by that point the typewritten page was too long to be book-shaped. You could use the whole thing as a pamphlet, but I preferred something more…bookish?
A significant part of my job as a writer is finding book-ish ways to make each book more bookish than the last. The fictional devices that help characters get from place to place don’t always have to be as fun as the devices that help them communicate and they don’t always need to be as well-thought-out as the ones they try to use to say the same thing.
This is a quality that comes from not trying to overthink things. You make the simplest and most efficient thing work as best as possible. In The Lost Gene, the barcode just worked better than anything else did. In “Barlinnie Nuts,” the title works because I mean it to. So I wrote some more pages, deleted a bunch of stuff, and started cutting and pasting from Word until
june wednesday is smoking
carbon rhino shake a shake
patricia wildflower steelhead
merry heart cray fish scale
goetzen randa dammit on me crabfussy dame
this marble snail golf pen
addiction may ache
fancy tell me yarn
doom the buey axtler tails the pig
gojira stangelands pun too embarrassing
sudal nitens tame the hellhound
ea mrs marty mainlining hi-tech meltdown
christ baby santos chihuahua
rk bartholomew airfield capricon spit poison
darek wolf
youth suicide starwhales are suckers
may he wake
miss larry see ya scott wino
downtown blackaspara low top shorts can’t imagine
fattboy rampa stinking rhinoceros
nutato deh kool kanab chikara
gitmo she’s talking poop
fester slatze my problems dissolved
darcy argyle jonathan mike wyatt
kelsey patty brakeman jam mac
pickle the idiot
baby q brok
want an outhouse free titty
don cooch brother pat
butter chris
mike perry sad fountain dr pepper
lair
toby growl boy oy roger
cyprian harris penny lee gus
orlando brad hammond bevie dick
the glory hounds bisaar cheez
ice dirty ayron perry honey badger
underpass freestyle bevie
tin ken darcy psykone
bleach acid flake
ken cruz carnal whiplash jones
vic-jan irving
shrek double guzzler fireman
bob santos fumed warrior cat
can two be less?
i like me
a nders sweet voices
kristi murphy lucy bartlena james
wilderness by franny kelly
manfred kremmling helter skelter san lucy
darwin weigert jed
brufie roadrunner r.s. shaftal
sue reynolds triangulation desodro
franny kelly plcok at jakethesystems
abra kathy mike abra
smokey blue dog tru
a may colbert marvel
fickies rebujito col
I think all these shenyegens are animated
for funzies
it’s a psychobabbledy place
hopefully your feet are shined
and your ticket to France is tucked to your pocket
the space of the social and the meretricious
up close with strangers is exhausting
most of our movies end up so happy
we’ve learned the key to adulthood
is layin’ down a tone
on the one hand free
on the other hand in any case
can be callow
but ish is still good
ish is still the key
to a good party
"and shit will only be good when it's not you"
-tybil
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stringed like living
hammered like whale bone bellies
muybridge perches in impotent pen
muybridge fuses and saves like a flip-flop
speeding into new seasons
fresh farm sprouts, colds
fallen buds and stubbed toes
piles of shooting stars, black shadows
the deluge clouds bowing into the low-luminosity sky
cine pebbles disappear into the sky
but the tram pa and donkey return
tram pa arrives as hungry ghost
drew by the million second light
panoramas that can’t be repeated, then vanish
like stray dogs that
never get taken home, take each other
home
photographic guts
part of the great-circle-of-destiny
jesus cluck cluck cluck
no more tumblr
no more tumblr
photographic guts
shining
nixon pomp pomp pomp
yesterday’s news
photographic guts
truth fakethrough
photographic guts
advertising
ho-ho-hold my wine
photos of president as iceman
clodhopping and shitting
the radio book it up like a naked
children’s book author
holding their penises
on the wide-eyed corners
of two characters from the same comic book
man, cut my poem down to 10 words
photographic guts
photo-shop images
smeared on a page
an advertisement
a fetish of fire
photographic guts
acrid smoke
1A
photographic guts
1D
photographic guts
photographic guts
photographic guts
photographic guts
photographic guts
photographic guts
Photographic gut pain: The author photographed the gut-shredded breasts of women while they walked around in the city. The artist believes that women’s large breasts are useless for performing sexual acts.
—from Rattle #55, Winter 2013
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Sarah DeLeon: "I wrote this poem for several reasons. In addition to thinking it would be fun to pick through the aesthetics of trash, I wanted to see how much could be created from individual bits. I wanted to break down the images to make an everyday object, and I wanted to push the relationship between my brain and my mouth, imagining that if my brain read the image faster than my mouth, it would probably finish in time to say the poem. Also, it felt like the right moment for this poem. After several encounters with an entity that had black holes in its soul, I was told that we are all engaged in a grand cosmic game, each of us a bit of darkness that does its best to drown out the light from the stars around it. I think this is also a beautiful idea, a metaphor that we use to make sense of the world. At the end of the day, we are all equal little cosmic soup. I see the little pieces as my veins, with the occasional blood spatter. So, that’s what the poem is about. It’s about being a young poet and doing what I can with the tools I have." (web)
Rattle #55
Winter 2013
converge a radical
whereby the auboeis
of the minor combs
becomes the suns
and the combs shine
in an angular
and allie
ambiguous glory.
—R. S. Pritchard
The Importance of Joan Kelly
Henry S. Fuller
November 1919
11o8
I
i am an American author. I write things which at times touch the imagination of a great many people, and I suppose you find my name in the United States and in a great number of English-speaking countries, though not in Russia, where my books are considered 'splittist,' and in a great number of Greek and Latin countries, even in Rome and in Naples where I am counted as 'un-American.' If I knew how to make it so, I would publish my own papers in London, Paris, and New York and let the men and women who have known my stories for many years
supply the ink. I would not bother them. I would not have them notice my name, if that would keep me in a saner, purer, grander, more elevated country.
But I don't. I am not a political writer. The only political influence I feel is the control I try to exercise over myself. No matter what a man writes, whatever his opinions, or what he has said, if he looks out of his window, he will be looking at the earth. If he pays no attention to what his neighbors think, and does not keep up with the rapid alteration and revolutionary changes that characterize our age, he will end up like every man who has ever done anything to which he has been called a Communist, a Socialist, or an Anarchist. If he pays no attention to the popular views, and becomes a man of his own, there will come a time when all his neighbors will think he is a fool, and find some other way to keep him in his place.
When I write, I don't ask myself what the public thinks. I don't care what the public thinks. What I do care about is the public that reads me. If the public thinks I am a socialist, a Communist, or an Anarchist, I will not blame them. If the public thinks I am a man, I will not blame them. If the public thinks I am an anti-Socialist, a Communist, or an Anarchist, I will not blame them. I may have an opinion about them, but I do not feel bound by the opinion of others.
When I write, I keep myself
as far away from common people as I can get. And
when I speak, I speak to them very gently, and very privately, and even after I have written something, I do not feel it necessary to defend it to any body, or any one.
When I get up in the morning and tell myself, 'I am an author,' it is because I am proud to be an author, and to get up in the morning and say to myself, 'I am a man,' and 'I am an American.'
I am not a one-horse man, and I do not hold a pencil to say, "I am an American." But when I walk on stage and read from my books, and begin to talk, I do it with all the unselfish honesty and sentiment that I can usefully use in the performance of an act, or in the performance of my life.
I am an author, and I think I am a writer. I think that I am the most honest, the most ingenious, and the most willing to write a better book than any other man I
men's cracked tennis elbow
forearm folds
imbalance mustanglover's gears
stealth over-reinforced disco drumset
turntable beater
nubile fiddle is
some kind of c-10 strapped to some angel
bent
mortally unhinged
withered mohawk
spun by true ghost
while you were out
wax on, wax off
exhausted from performing
every song on his
own YouTube
soundcloud
where he posted
battles
of the last night
of a mountie on drugs
half vampire
part Cthulhu
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Music Video created by my friend Patrick Bergman.
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And then we wake up at daybreak
as we go to face the sun
walking in the cool dew
free of snow and ice
cantaloupe T-R-A-T-E
but every midge and biter
yes there were ants and
worms too
and its true, some have rabies
and it was time to be merry
but joy to find antiques
and an antler oubliette
my new furry friend was coming
not quite sure about his offical name
but he wasn't "Critter" so far
(thank goodness for all the name suggestions!)
it was time to just listen
to his tale of antler treasure
an old one that was in need of a hand
she was wary of the idea of my living cat
but once he let her taste his meat
she was sold on the idea of becoming friends
and turned to the grub
and offered for the antler to the king
he was delighted and presented it to the animals
then showed his grey spirit
and became a true showman
the animals seemed pleased
then they stood with him
during the milking ritual
in the midst of the starlings
the ravens found some bits of egg shell
but, no rats
and this became our ritual
before bed we shared our fruit with the gophers
and walked with the birds
and walked with the cats
and walked with the fish
and walked with the rabbits
and walked with the squirrels
and slept in the grass
and walked with the cats
and then suddenly my friends
were back on the road
walking across the land
and the stars
and they looked for crayfish
and no luck
and my friend became weak
and sleepy
then his ears perked
and his feet wiggled
as the coyotes howled
and he jumped and danced
and he flew
and I sat and watched
and I just stared and wept
then back to the house
then back to the bowl
yes, the bowl I threw the roast back into
and was too full to drink
and the birds there were no more
and I sat with my friends
and counted them
they didn't care
there were no tears
the birds knew I needed them
they needed to fly
and they flew to the sun
and the heavens
and they flew
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