My love
In every type of weather
Gets cold
Wants to wear my sweater
Laughs
Tells me it's forever
Goes away
And knows we're still together

A city asleep is ruthlessly efficient
Dreams are distributed
Hopes exhibited
Snapshots in time briefly revisited

New lovers, children
The functionally insane
Serenely succumb to the sandman
To visions that satisfy attention spans
To nightmares that vanish with morning Raisin Bran

But poets and drunkards resist this plan
They walk through empty streets
Feeling incomplete
Taking their women ***** and their whiskey neat

Finally they too surrender to sleep
Tossed by worries into withering wind
Of dragons and fax machines
Of reality dimmed
Sunrise distorts them and they vanish as they begin
Just like tomorrow
And tomorrow again

Flee from the borders
Let the walls fall
Crumbling buildings and buried roads
Bullets, mortars
Claim them all

The dead overwhelm us
Too many to mourn
Proud soldiers and prouder mothers
Ashes, dust
The levies of war

Last night
We dreamed
That each of us was waiting 
Tonight 
I sleep
With the memory of you fading

Muddled in my brain
I try to reexplain
Our love is sweet stupidity
Wasted champagne

Once there were days
Before that there were weeks that pressed on like pistons
From moments into memories 
Refugees of our forgotten obligations clung to them like broken glass
Waiting to be tenderly left to rot
Waiting as we do

Time passes
Time smothers
Our cherished children grow
To deny love and life to others

Sensations and symbols silently consume you
They fool you and school you and satisfy you until you're lost in them and you wake up weeks later wondering what they were
Sensations and symbols
Built by drifting generations
 Improved, covered in graffiti, rediscovered and left to crumble
 Now, before and soon again

You malicious magpie
You beautiful freak
Chalk up your cheek
Keep your poisons beneath
Fire oozing
Winds confusing
Sands turning feelings to shadows
Of boredom
Of hunger
Of shame
Accept it

Your breath was like fire
And my lips were too dry
Both eyes dug into me
But one of them lied
Constantly
Like seas
Searching for shore
Responsibly
The whole thing
Smother it

Louder
It's nighttime
And you're far away
Part of me's sad
But not today
And not tomorrow
Acknowledge it

Listlessly
Hope?
Hairy
A hippopotamus slain
Leeward shores
Drifting days
A cup that can't be raised

Hours and hours of counting your flowers
Etch
And pray for pain
Toga way
A he I say
And swirl down the drain

Memories-emotions
Nothing never gone
Conflating with hating
Regurgitating
Til all of it is gone

Eat your crumpled sweater
Drink sweat from in my mind
Close up all those new ideas
And still feel empty inside
Do not sit beside me
Do not claim my time
I've never had your gifts or treasures
But I'd give them up for empty rhymes
Open up my final will
And read between the lines
Or cross crooked through the origin of bellyaches and sighs
Heal my laughter
Ringing chimes
A thousand equals zero
And nothing that is mine
Who would know what started in sadness would finish like a bee in a bottle of wine?
Trying to tempt our ticking time
Gold and silver rusting

Today I crawled through a broken fantasy
And looked for light on every side
Do not say you'll try to love me;
we both believe you when you lie

A personable person propogated passion
Beneath my heavy heart
Alas, cried the caterpillar
You are not dead!
Though I have spent hours molesting your windowsill
Rapeseed!
Huckleberry!
Gingerbread Pie!
All these things and more have I maliciously misunderstood
But the lies of the soothsayer are frequently true
They are passionate pomegranates from me to you
The obelisks of oppression overpower your heartstrings
And there's nothing you can do

My villain!
My thief!
The princess of my misery!
The fiery orb and the blasphemous pirates!
Staring at your shoulders I see only my reflection
Turning on your heel my eyelids sparkle and linger at your doorstep

It's Goliath's head
Salmon and bread
Those deathly ideas which you purposely said
Tic tac guru
Just what is he to you?
And which of my words have you read?

Gilded grapefruit and yellow tea fall softly from my lips
But when I'm alone with electric boredom 
Reading trains and zits
Its and bits
Flowers for her hips
They never seem to get to her
And suddenly it ends

When saliva is saturated we all need a wakeup call
No matter how foreign we feel
But at daybreak your love is like a milkshake
It claws out my eyes and reluctantly takes Eleanor home for dinner
She sits there
She snorts
She smiles
She tore my heart into so many pieces that I'm still looking for the ones that rolled under the refrigerator

Bingo and broadsides do little for my brain
Ages of nothingness and drifting decades starve me
Lies and mistakes and dreams refuse to move on
They bounce off of Rosie's chin, mangle with age, and bitterly salute us as they die

No one else and no one else's
Only the cylindrical sapphire and the girl who carries it
Alone
In pastures of barley and mint leaves
To moan and mourn
To lose and to lust for the forgotten treasures of tomorrow
But that's where I found her
Though she cried for a thousand years I could never see her tears through the damp curtain of my own
Alone
We slept in sin
Separated through passing time by rotting skin and bone
And still we wait and wonder at our muddied misfortune
Together
Until these clouded thoughts blow past