smoke break
there are distractions. infighting on the left,
letters on neon signs blowing a fuse.
your biblical name was Languishing.
boys like to tell me who’s a weird guy,
I tell them they can live without music.
you look like you belong on a sunken ship,
glamorous and gilled, voice like a water chestnut.
I pretend I am as beautiful as the people in car commercials.
I revel in the coincidence of an old dog named Emily.
what ever happened to coincidence?
the worst person in me is the professor.
youtube suggests deep healing water sounds.
I wonder if the goldfish understands itself
as the troubadour of the bowl.
time is not a losing unit
even if we invented it to be possessed
what if I told you we had time
because time is made up
like everything else
and because we have it
like everything else
I love time because I love you
you are now in your time on earth
we are durating
observing the weekendhood
checking the clock
people make movies about time
the time it takes to make a movie
is not reflected in the length of
the movie itself
we don’t have all day
what if I told you time isn’t
leisure or luxury or even money
it’s just something we all
seem to agree on
at least some
there are distractions. infighting on the left,
letters on neon signs blowing a fuse.
your biblical name was Languishing.
boys like to tell me who’s a weird guy,
I tell them they can live without music.
you look like you belong on a sunken ship,
glamorous and gilled, voice like a water chestnut.
I pretend I am as beautiful as the people in car commercials.
I revel in the coincidence of an old dog named Emily.
what ever happened to coincidence?
the worst person in me is the professor.
youtube suggests deep healing water sounds.
I wonder if the goldfish understands itself
as the troubadour of the bowl.
time is not a losing unit
even if we invented it to be possessed
what if I told you we had time
because time is made up
like everything else
and because we have it
like everything else
I love time because I love you
you are now in your time on earth
we are durating
observing the weekendhood
checking the clock
people make movies about time
the time it takes to make a movie
is not reflected in the length of
the movie itself
we don’t have all day
what if I told you time isn’t
leisure or luxury or even money
it’s just something we all
seem to agree on
at least some
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