a serious silent way she holds her face

it’s difficult to not fall in love with charlotte gainsbourg

       at first second or third sight

mid to late november  afternoon   or night

    morning        bright    

the look isn’t french

        if french were a look and not a language   an animal  granted

used and abused by careless women

still  you mustn't resist the dark of the hair and the pull of the lips

to kiss to wish to miss just this    lips  lip enough to affect the  abyss

        of darkened eyes  laugh lines  and street light  sifted

through smiles and lies   clipped  to collide

a singer in the rain

eno   in the movies

judy’s horses

a boy who’s just like me

                                   fucked up insides      
                                          ugly getting uglier

every cigarette is a lie

      even the smoke gets too fucking high

and only cleared throats get to decide

         like it ever could be nineteen hundred and sixty five

                     she knows success   mad love and duress

never worried enough to iron a shirt

             or hold it close enough    to hurt

is it a fling if you flirt   or only if it works

                if the letters learned should be read or be earned

   so take your tornado  the cause of concern

           sit close to the aisle in case anything burns

anything of hers  words  yours

fluid lung epiphany     caught and hung

                        by the neck until dead

limp shoulders smileshoulders  the heart of the head

       left  wishing for hands and three hit demands

jerusalem

         slave ships

are trouble     inviting cello sonatas

four o’clock   sunday

hearing difficulty

       voices   choices are furthered     foisted

synagogue steered

used up but not near   not nearly enough to turn up or tune up

      there is a serious silent way   she holds her face    framed  in english the famous' fate


and no one ever says 'there's not enough weight'

or  ‘the show must go on’

in fact

       nobody ever calls it a show

and it nev

er goes  on or

          anywhere

but someday we know

 it will

move ghost green hills   

with jet black wood

hepburn understood     the half turn
                               and  to

sleep while the sleep

while the  getting is good

a young person's guide to pressboarding

do your best to keep an open mind

      stretch it out for weeks at a time

then    make the same mistakes your entire life

    but if it should happen to break tonight

if it should happen to break    like    like

i mean just go ahead and

     blink twice  if you hear it    or feel it

till you know that it’s right

           or at least until you’re sure that she might

a waterfall bend

be here tomorrow to do it again

             the best was worn against my neck

it was built on sand    what did you expect

the lies that bring the many smiles

wouldn’t burn   given time

   you’d think we’d learn  

maybe        right?

take one step closer to the light

that extra step   will loose the tight

      but don’t question fear   it could be right

evo   lution       that is why

something is riding on this

but you   don’t know what it is

    do you

skin-and-bones?

    the next kiss

just don’t tell the kids

looking back

not sure why i did

a novella about pride in yourself  

 bringing it one step closer to health

proving for once that right    is a time

       is it leaped or leapt    you decide

                                                                each step one closer to    

                                                                               what  i’ll 

 find

  The Execution of Emperor Maximilian -Edouard Manet 

loose

rubbertubearmneedleshinemoonlight 

gold  in his mouth to remind all who see him he is a homeboy  sure down by law  over rainbow he says/sends him   unnoticed final  can't you breathe for me   you and me   brothers   politics-power rhetoric showered upon the poor and the poor at heart powder flowers laughter louder   forget reason   want start lightning is daylight truth on a dark night timothy wishes there was something to hold knowing it's monday he falls into sunday

     fight anger   fight cold   

can't you breathe for me don't it set your soul free you and meyou and meyou and me we're   brothers   back of the hotel   pain joy  found   feels like i'm flying   feels like i'm dying   

take a deep breath attempt to astound