Throwing rocks into the winter river.
Ice as thin as a child's soul's skin
Carries not the weight
Of History's oldest weapon.

Like a paperless poem it shatters,
Floating away with the fleeing stream.
Water needs no windows.
Nothing is outside to its within.

I could not be with you so I became you.

Stop comparing tragedy—
We all know this already—that
Everything hurts.

you say you love me
But all I experience is contempt

Love is presence embodied
by patience and understanding

all I taste is bitterness

in the creek of tomato silence
where my father saw
what it was
god
could not eat
there lives
a tiny whale
fooled
by emptiness

Drugs that will keep you awake
or make you sleep tight,
drugs that will give you
a ******* all night,
drugs that will open the doors
to illusion,
drugs for confusion.

Happy?
take drugs
Sad?
take drugs.

Let's give a big cheer for
the chemical freer.

Drugs that will bind you,
drugs that will blind you
drugs that you find in the
back of the drawer.

For future reference
my drug of preference
is you.

Bells?
if it's not
a hangover
it must be
Sunday.