Water of the Damned
We are all the same.
The spirit of the water
is private for all.
Only by sharing
can we no longer see
the spirit of the water.
Water of the damned, how could you
have washed away my dreams?
She is the first girl
that I have ever loved
who I gave up without a fight.
Yet still, as the colors drop around me
and I sicken with masculine weeping
how could you know
when I dream of your inner candle?
Let no harm befall
my favorite stupid girl.
The malicious fact of life
is a prison under clouds
a shroud of human folly.
If only love were as easy as being drunk.
If only I were drunk instead.
I want to be drunk when I get shot
First get me drunk
mother's day
day I was born.
I want to be drunk when I get shot
we'll kiss and cry
you take the children, the groceries
and my glass eye.
Did you get the note I left exclusively for you
pardon but I blasted it on National TV
don't spread your legs for me.
The sun
that big, beautiful orb
determined to light up the day
is my long, lost Chinese sister
who was kidnapped and sold into slavery.
When will the clouds go away?
To sit on the bridge and stare into
this elemental force of everything
both the vicious and the forgiving
the hammer of the carpenter
that crazy lucid brook of rapids
one of the arrangements
of unceasing fascination
living everywhere forever.
It was really hard not to say I love you.
Watching the rapids
of the wild growling brook
pregnant with Summer waters
She, water, he said magnificently
the significance of me is you
and of you is me.
That feral tributary
so familiar with a stranger
beckoned me with white waters
come sit with me.
The laughing folds came to dance
playfully at my sneakers,
as one old rock wore a funny frown.
Where is Mindy?
Where is the child who jumped to her death?
Where are you?
The white, white, white
of the water's mane
is none other than gold.
Unburnable, yet
more easily torn than silk,
a touch on my hand
It reminds me
(and air teases me now)
of the touch of your untangled hair.
Cottonwood fluff fills the story
landing on the waters of the damned.
Do you want me to write you a love letter?
The love would be easy
but I'm not sure I could sustain the theme.
You have too many years ahead
and I too few.
Old man, young girl,
Grandmother said it's gotten more common.
Even if you wanted me to write you a love letter
for both of our sake
at least I didn't.
Indeed, I fear accuastion,
but it is not for this that it is you I accuse
I accuse you of trying to get me to fall in love with you
when I am already in love with you.
Such is the power of my downfall in the making.
So, don't say I didn't ask you out
because I didn't love you.
Besides all that I am looking for
is my long lost Chinese sister
who was kidnapped and sold
into slavery.
Can you imagine
the shivvering of a thousand kisses?
How the water ruffles with pleasure?
It is my kiss, my kiss, my kiss
my sordid, taking, foolish, murdering kiss
engulfed by the girl who lives
in this frenetic amazing, avenging creek
of charity raising hell
writing bye bye
when I really wanted to write the Bible.
See you later
have a nice time
everything is too fast
impossible to focus
Defiance!
The water
white and brown
how ravishing!
The curse of pleasure
fountaining with every furrow dashing by.
As bugs come flying with their portents of itchy disaster
and the sun,
my Chinese sister
is found.