Lakeside petro
I dragged my feet
You were dragging on cigarettes

Raven bread sandwich
Can you turn it up?
Windows down is cold, but worth it

And I guess we caught the same thing
Cuz, when that song came on
About the black canoe
we both turned an eye to the sky

I like them.
not all poems but sometimes
sometimes i read a poem and
it catches me by surprise
maybe once you've left it to find something
a word a line an idea the whole **** thing
and you go back and you think anything about something
and you leave again
and then if you're lucky you find $20 on the ground and use that $20 to buy candy and cigarettes

Someday
You will wake up
And the day will be stretched out before you

Time
Having run through its to-do list
Will have eased to a crawl

You
With all your different acts and words and movements
Will have become the epitome of yourself

And you will inhale each moment deeply
And you will feel each blade of grass beneath your feet
And whispers of tomorrow won’t ever reach your ears

Someday
You will wake up

Ballooning tissue
Lips chewed raw
Surprising blood and horror
A dog’s chew toy
Skin pressed tight swollen to bursting point so tight splitting
Synapse stretched and snapping
Sinews torn like bits of cloth like flesh from bone
Numb
Day by day on
Screens

If - Vancouver was born
“Quite fun. Ran up this with my partner on our first time
  up to the top of the Chief. Great fun!” - Juler 2011-09-03

Then - The alpine was created


Mountaineers started at sea level and they walked
into a


“Million thanks to the one who put
permanent draws on the bolts” - calvinclimb 2011-09-07


veritable howling wilderness
to counter this foreign *******

Thus the alpine was created by us:
Learned cosmopolitan alpinists

Would not could not cannot popularize
The exclusive sport of learned cosmopolitan alpinists
To popularize was to vulgarize


“My buudy took a big fall fell clipping,
lucky falls are super safe” - boulamania 2013-06-05

Take for instance Art Cooper’s statement:
You've heard about the Squamish Chief,
The way they go up that rock wall
I don’t think that’s climbing at all.”

No Art, certainly not
Now they do not stay long enough to feel diminished
Unlike us learned cosmopolitan alpinists
“Everyone in the free world has climbed this uber-classic!
Should you get lost, ask the party in front of you where to go” - rock climbing.com
Who drove our teeth through our lips for our
Exploratory climbing
Now
A well used recreational area

Today I am a bubble of oxygen
Surrounded by water

Today I am available
Actions are the water

Water is water

With the untouchable soon-to-be
Touched at my back

The untouchable only
In touch with me

Within touch

But I know I’m heading south when i am done
But I don’t get it sometime

I’ll get to it sometime

I spent the morning my morning looking into windows and listening to glass inside of her so still skipping past the cell would be towards unless ideas and stop the run going to be sick
Flattening in full anyway I recomposed in my absence night had fun already it had grown dark
Still so shut the blinds and render through the window that carry me through and less I do use to connect me to all who said Evers of still deadly between worlds

Highways pass beneath the north shore structure moving in all directions
above the ancient growth in-cedes
and falls tangled softly at the foot of her bed

inside the building it is always the dull morning hours
clicking clocks rise and fall moving cars
waiting for the morning to rise

as i entered one morning i swear an arm of fog followed me inside
fluorescent glow smell of cleaner
she's having trouble

keeping food down
walking
her ****** prolapsed again

six years ago was six months
and six months ago was six weeks
a teddy bear too loved falling apart at the seams

the woman next door came into my bedroom last night
she had someone cut the key
i’m startled even though i know this is coming

she used to make blackberry jam in the summer time
and the juice stained everything it touched purple
but that word is foreign to her now

and she told me that she was a nurse on the beach at d-day
and even though i know she wasn't
she knows she was

the tea is nicely guided along its next sip
it's like you always said if you want water make water
if you want tea make tea