from The Child who brought Misfortune
it’s nice to watch you dancing
not even map yr. silver trail
the little man
on whom you burn yr.fingers
inherits nothing
except the doors already broken
believing it’s already dead
the death of passion
the death of fingers
the death of coffee
his feathers are a printout
face down digging in warm snow
within a paving
jumps around another stone
or the man with small ears
small ears to concentrate the sound
they all come through the floor
and celebrate
across the carpets
♦
practising the next war
we smashed a goldfish with a stone
in dead of night
the velvet paw descends
I stole the rain
vomiting fragments
of fool’s gold
back into the earth
who are those young men knocking
at your front door?
in the surface
thru small cracks seeping
these visitations
are called Shirley
his little face revolving
as he feeds
who are these young men knocking
at your front door?
the cunning tongue darts silent in the ear
sliding over edge
of knife and razor
♦
I have no time for that
I am just a heartbeat
within a fortnight I am gone
I live
but for this moment
twirling from the trees
in ecstasy
without ecstasy
pulling earth
from in my ears
but only when I hear this music
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