- Alaska
One, two, three
Last month in Alaska
The pattern of my life laid out
And I asked what I'd been asking you
Like trees repeat, like numerals do
Like a ladder to the atmosphere
The rungs each come again and again
And I let it
- Aphasia
So satisfied I said a lot of things tonight
So long Aphasia & the ways it kept me hiding
It's not so much exactly all the words I used
It's more that I was somehow down to let them loose
So complicated I can't wait to get explaining
Your listening distended out since I've been crying
So long Aphasia & the ways it kept me hidden
So long to silent nerves & hesitant oblivion
- Cadmium
Was walking with my neck out
In some ways I wish I was
Was walking with my neck out
In some ways that I wish that I was
Out on the bevel sound
It sounds like everything else
You'll know it when you hear it
- Cyclone
If it's better, then why am I crying?
Why am I so struck with grief
About this one way things could be?
Why am I so stuck together?
And I fixate on the same cyclone now
How's that help?
How's that settle anything?
And when will it end?
- Dotted Line
Ignore the wreckage on the shoulder
I cross the border into New Jersey
Where a dotted line from my antenna says
May no fantasy hold my head up
Just another day in the polar vortex
Do I do my thing and just keep my head down?
Or do I eclipse back to Atlanta, no
May no fantasy hold my head up
- Endless
Is life kickin' up dust right now?
Has life given up for you right now as well?
Oh, what is life givin' us?
I wake up and feel totally the same
I woke up the same as yesterday
With no news of any kind
The long mornin', the light afternoon
And then night could be comin' soon too
- Flora
I insist it wasn't always like this
I saw the sun saw red in the grass
With every fiber vibrating alive
And so I lie down and lower my eyes
Until the sun fell low in the yard
Feeling territory coming down
Then I'm out
I don't hear the sound
- Habitat
It's so still
How'd you do that?
You settled down my habitat
Downhill
Through the speed trap
And the agitated aftermath
When across the state
Is gone and dilapidated
- Hairpin
I woke up grinding my teeth
With you next to me just smiling
My friend through hairpin bends
You do upend my island
Through infidel skies
Through asphodel eyelids
One eye at a time
I can't wait to go home
- Iodine
I swallow my pride
The animals outside are loving in the humid daylight
I followed it inside
From room to room to try to see if something catches me right
(Yeah)
But nothing I try
Can abbreviate the time
Can alleviate my mind
- Mather Knoll
You said wake up
When the curtains are moving out and in
I said that might not be too far from the truth
Anyways
I’ll buy you breakfast
I’ll buy you medicine
You’re calling me out
- Moment
Scared to know
I'm scared to know
Got me talking in the dark
Saying anything I can
Damnit I'm scared to know
I'm scared to know
But I need to know
Then on the bad long drive home
- Neighbor
Little insect upside down and tryin'
To right-side up itself felt by my right foot tapping
Squirming mechanism and it spins and tips vertical
But in my alien eye, I can see he's beautiful
Well, I love my neighbor
I love his determined behavior
If it were me, I probably might have just stayed there
Mid-sized opossum in front of my house, dyin'
- No Drugs
No drugs and alcohol today
I wanna remember everything we talk about
I wanna feel light moving in everything you say
But part of me is caveated out
Like maybe certain circumstances are permissible
Maybe I just couldn't, you could just just look the other way
Is it so wrong?
I wanna feel good
- Peeling Off The Bark
Leaning in a dark room:
A look alike James Wright
(when all my life I’ve been rejecting
What will I say yes to?)
What did I say yes to?
I’d been cutting glass carefully
& all my time was spent alone;
I didn’t expect you
- Phase
That night when I lifted my head up
And I was seeing what was trembling there
On the edge of my restless eyelid
On the tip of the horizon's lash
On the lip of collapsing letter
In the lap of confusing moon
I'm reduced to an estranged illusion
I'm consumed by all the shit in my room
- Problems
this is how i spend my life up
singin old songs
what if i waste my life up?
& all my problems
it's so stupid
they're not even problems
it was supposed to snow
& it did for a minute
- So What
But so what?
So much, so what, so overdrawn
Everyone you meet along
Suffered an ellipsis and it's done
One day, just one, mm-hm
Not too much
Now today
Eleven degrees on September 10th
- Spiral
Drink water
Good posture
Good lighting
Good evening
You're mourning
The loss of
A feeling
A part of
- The Alarmist
You left gleaming
A green rectangle around the door
Please be careful
What you wish for
I whisper to myself, then I'm spinning it half around
Like an echo, a far away sound
Singing "Be good to me"
Be good to me
- The Metronome
The night my
necklace fell off
you fluttered through my
capillaries like a
stoned moth.
I agree with your ideas but not your tactics
so look me in the eye & be practical.