Last night, a thump.
A body hurled, third floor.
Second floor doesn’t do that kind of thing.
It’s 2 am.
That time of night when people when wake up anyways.
Blue-dark like antifreeze.
I was hard trying to go to sleep.
My bank account’s been throttled by loans,
Bills, Coronas, Blunts, Girls.
They shut off the water.
I walked to the store and saw a friend.
Ashamed, I laughed,
Said I liked water. “Water like liquor
like Koolaid like fun. “
What I really meant was:
“Water like survival like broke like stupid.”
This girl operates in ideas,
Dances like a ballerina,
Acts like an actress,
And will probably get bored soon.
There’s one across town that knows her way
around a lollipop, calls me sweet,
wears red just the way I like it,
***** **** with both hands
and doubles over to her tiny knees to laugh.
The actress is less sustainable,
but I sustain thoughts about her more.
The thump, it interrupts,
Distorts a globular fantasy into a brilliantly skewed
Pixelated awakening.
Pixels drain out. Room
Clears of smoke. Velvet embalming begins, purple night quickens,
Halogen streetlights invade in battalions.
**** me.
There’s a girl with a rancid *****
I still love.
The electricity thrums.
I’ve never been humble;
Super-conscious.
I can hear second floor:
footsteps light like *** fear,
tipping to the nexus. To the spot
where some hurled
lies,
above even them.
Third floor gets down like that. I can’t be a hero.
I used to think it was second floor.
But they don’t get down like that.
If we shut off the power,
You’ve gotta pay.
I know, I know,
How much?
180.
Carlos used to live on third.
Wife took the kids and dipped,
That elephant footed baby,
And the mouse-footed teen.
Carlos brought all kinds up after that,
Muffin women with huge, roach eyes,
Emaciated blondes with seamounts running their spines,
Thick, buggy black girls with ***** I wanted to stick my **** all the way into.
Then he quit. Broke one day. Told me everything was mine if I went up there,
and he was gone.
Third Floor was there in two days.
Bruh, they caught u stealing.
How much?
Don’t know, they were just talking about it at work today.
****.
I watch way too much ****. Tonight,
I get ***** enough to burn holes in my palms.
Maybe it’s the fear and anger.
Third floor is not my problem.