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06 January 2012

i didn't love because it didn't love


we hardly even knew each other
and that was the glue
      stuck us together
kept us on the ground
while the peaches are in season
the trees just in reach
there’s little left to do
            but teach

i won’t let anyone hurt the pearl
the laudanum
      the mild form of the wild world
none of us
and none of this
      will make amends
let’s not be friends
   let’s not be trite
did you hear the truth song
                                the one by the giant

   ninety three
the more fool   i
it’s an estimate
            of what it’ll be
what you’ll see
in the land of cotton
where old times are
      all but forgotten
palm trees and sunshine
the basis of every story
from the gulf
      but smaller   seven
left to fend for himself
the aristocrat
            the girl

it’s easy to tell the stories
if you don’t let the truth
get in the way
make it a blue dress
make it so there’s
no need to confess
so there’s nothing to regret
      on the shore

in eighty four
      at seventeen
said i didn’t love
because it didn’t love
   in the art class
elaine floyd
   said
what
      said
   how
she was a hippie then
but she’s
      a hypocrite
now




01 September 2011

when lonely got me thinking
                     i'd do anything to be without it

same story on the delay
        some things just take time
i'm happy you'll doctor up
               you can hear the dynamics

things are worse off than i thought back with since
      working know how to relate to    life's rich pageant
the twenty four will be difficult for a sentimentalist such as myself

good grades relish the role as curve destroyer
i am not ready to leave buffalo  
                  but the off chance you and bryan
considering talk and the south

excellent viewpoint both
    thoughtful   and reflective
add experience
  understand addiction
              be invaluable

in what is certain
            an expanding galaxy 
  isn’t easy to do

killing in singapore loan debt
      and maybe more
to get out from under the things they unfurl

the decidedly unreligious make it easy
       to forget the fervor that those beliefs can stir
             in zealots 
in conversation about networking with a fellow
    felt good until he muttered
‘all that work is well and good but it'll get you nowhere
unless you're with the network i'm with 

                     G*O*D

is the only thing i'll ever need
                to get exactly what i want’

but what if what i want
                             is fleeting
and there are so many competing
                    all i really feel like doing    is eating

                be there in about twelve minutes


stunned to silence 
                    and suddenly hungry

but what actually happened was that tipping point you see in people when they ask you to explain something   then realize it is more complicated than they’d like it to be and you see the words approaching their metaphoric ‘fill’ line  the eyes glaze forward with laziness  sloth and what spits out is derision for understanding anything that can’t be abbreviated

if it's difficult
      you quit
that’s the long and the short of it   then    
                                      you get something to eat

maybe we did that too           we don't recall  the how long of it all


                           singer has been taken advantage of  or   
                     maybe   she just called her own shot
                                                        i just hope she survives it

as i survived the cult of domesticity
              upon my move across the country’s height 
                                                                           not its width

when lonely got me thinking i'd do anything to be without it

Brion Gysin