Part 1 My third car broke down All that metal It will outlive me
I’ve been jogging to work Taking the back ways of a neighborhood I barely know
Yesterday morning I took pictures A modern day romantic
A pack of camels followed by A pack of Marlboro silvers The cellophane glittered with dew It will outlive me
A sunset behind a church Sunsets will outlive me
A shopping cart next to the church sign The grocery store is very far from here I imagine it belonged to a homeless man He found this spot and was saved The art of being saved will outlive me
Broken glass I want to touch it Leave my blood upon it I want to glue each piece To form a ball And hang it from a nearby tree So that it may own the morning sunlight Reflect it like small miracles Some parts red That glass will outlive me
A dead rabbit Mostly bone now That rabbit did not outlive me I feel good about that
There was also a woman walking her dog We passed by a tree at the same time She and the dog were old She would not let me take her picture So I took one of the tree She and the dog will not outlive me I don’t feel good about that Part2 This facebook status will outlive me And I feel like a caveman Scrawling poetry on cave walls In an attempt to be remembered forever
I want to place my hand upon your belly And bite my lips So I can spit blood Like a human can of spraypaint The outline So you cannot forget what my own touch looked like
You May not outlive me And I may not outlive you All we have is now
All we have is now
My car broke down, the third one this year, and I have been jogging to work. I took a bunch of picture the other day on my jog. This poem has those pictures on my facebook to accompany it. I've been re-reading some of the romantics lately, only my nature is much different from their nature.