Jace Albine

Jace Albine Mar 2021

Just by looking at these words
I impress myself upon you

A cop-out?

Something imaginable to say
Something intelligible

We are one
Why would you try to deny
What you are?

A poem that is reading you

Jace Albine Mar 2021

Realities Toll Pays a Heavy Burden

Inside the minds eye we think to ourselves
Outside everything all at once
In life I came to understand the simplest things
In the most complex way that I could imagine

The body knows to breath
Life knows how to be
I am amongst it all
Inside
Outside
And forever

With these hands I hold the flame
An old joke dies
And in its wake
Births quietly
Acupunctured skin folds flap and flew
Ventriloquists budding
A hairy dog
Grass masked the mane of the dandelions roar
A powerful broad sweeping stroke off a solitary water painters pen
Insects burrowing in the garden
A whisper of somebody worshiping the gods that they were told to know
Easily finding meaning within a limited scope
Equity
Equality
The ****-fest of mankind
And our limited ability to perceive the entirety of it all

I do recall
The words that I’ve used

Electric flesh
I am
And so are you

And to each other

We present

Our edited lives

Jace Albine Mar 2021

Horses, Alone, Don't Drink Water

You can lead a person to thought,
but you can’t get them to think.

Jace Albine Mar 2021

Best Wishes

When you wish someone illy
You waste the wish to wish well on yourself

Or perhaps someone you love

Jace Albine Mar 2021

The Flag Yearnings

Every time someone waves a flag
They don’t understand what they are actually of

And maybe that’s enough
Maybe that’s just enough

I could pull my hair out for every mistake
I could realize how mankind has been taught what they know
But I rather not go bald over what beseeches.

Jace Albine Feb 2021

Could You Love Me for a Day?

Could you love me for a day?
Could you play pretend?
Could you act as if our love will have no bitter end?

Could you love me for a day?
And then go away
never to see me again?

Could you love me for one day?
Like we're the only two
swimming through eternities blue?

Could you love me for a day?
And then when you awake
get dressed and forget my name?

Could you love me for a day?
Knowing that that moment will last forever,
in that time, and in that place?

Could you love me for a day?
Could you give me that piece of mind?
And I will try to be there when we die.

Could you love me for a day?
Kiss my eyes
and make me believe it's going to be okay?

Could you love me for a day?
Could you love me in just that way?

Could you love me for a day?
And I will let you escape.

Could you love me for a day?
Without a heart, or a cause to break?

Could you love me for a day?

Could you love me?

Could you. . . ?

For just one day?

Jace Albine Feb 2021

For ****’s Sake

Words are at our command to express meanings as we see fit.

In censoring words we are no longer in command of them,
but they are of us.

Not being able to use all words is like not being able to paint with all the colours available.