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softcomponent May 2018
Collecting lonely moments

while not technically "alone,"

a recipe for bite-the-bullet recovery

from on high.


The bonds between I & "Other"

seem to strain

to the point that they

ALMOST snap...

whether in collapsing disconnection

or the simple anxious pulse

of "all" in disassociation,

like identity

was nothing more

than a summer lawn

adorned in trampolines,

with ideas of ID's

bouncing up & down

like an ambivalent parade

of helium balloons.
Written May 13th, 2018
in Powell River, BC, Canada
softcomponent May 2018
this town is a skin

I thought I shed

like a snake

in the grass.


But sitting above

my old haunts

as if a vault

of old remembrances

dipped in a soft coat

of nostalgia

has made me find

it is much deeper than that:

it still sits in my

muscles, my irises,

and burrows

down

into

my

bones.
Written May 7th, 2018
in Powell River, BC, Canada.
Wax
Let us just sit together in the bathtub and

wax
philosophical

with our toes
in eachother's *******
softcomponent Apr 2018
someone once told me

to purify fire, one must

wash the flame

and sit in darkness, thinking:

"finally, it's the Brand New Testament

                                              I'm reading."
softcomponent Apr 2018
Tell me everything,

but—hey, wait!!—as you do

start way back at nothing,

*** it's still 'something' too.
softcomponent Apr 2018
A life seen in wide-angle

is a floodlight

chewing away the collective cataracts

of ignorance

only to spit them back out

and make a stew

with the sloppy remains.

(please,

                     just promise you won't eat me

                                                             ­           'til I'm dead.)
softcomponent Apr 2018
Sad cars stream down/up/down/up highway

like a two-way waterfall

full of salmon Neal Cassady's

and

Sal Paradise's

on their way to the

spawning sanctuary

to give birth to a strange

bleeding

fever // dream.
written Sunday, February 4th, 2018
in Rock Bay, Victoria, British Columbia.
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