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tread Mar 2013

homesick

when I tell
my parents
that I'm
"homesick,"

what I really
mean is, I'm
sick of not
being in your
arms, because
that's where
'home' is now.

16 days till I see you again.
16 days I intend to make the most of.

tread Mar 2013

if that was what it called itself

Middle-aged couples
always argue during
road trips.

my parents misplaced
matter-of-factness
upsets me. They ****
themselves trying to
be right.

if we grow into middle
age together, which I
feel is a distinct
possibility, can we let
down our guard? I
don't really care to
be right. I just want
to be here. With you.
Carpe diem or what
ever the Romans
called it.

tread Mar 2013

Gotama

Everyone is waiting like
angry Buddhists
for the washrooms
to become vacant again.

I'm waiting for
my mind to be vacant
impatiently, like an angry
bodhisattva,

so I can get some
******* shuteye.

tread Mar 2013

cloud fade snow fade

I saw 3 stars floating
in the window over Greenland.
The clouds below in the night
sky represented the snow blind
vision of this half-country,
half-forgotten-continent.
My stomach ached, felt like gas.
I wondered if the flight attendants
were robbing a nap
in the foreground of
our lives.

written on March 20th, 2013 over southern Greenland.

tread Mar 2013

the homeless of Maidstone

wrapped in vested polar,
Costa coffee cup for 50
pence of sympathy, face
frail with her skull the only
armchair she affords and
the march of globalized
Britons, the sons and
daughters of the last
aristocracy.. the re-
furbished cobble survivors
of God-knows-eternity-
for-the-sake-of-Saint-
Peter is her only television
set and no one plans to steal
it because it's far too big to
carry off.

tread Mar 2013

holy sermon

I met the Archbishop today
washing my hands after
******* in a public
washroom.

He smiled at me in the mirror
and said,
"I won't tell
if you won't tell."

tread Mar 2013

TMJ

my jaw keeps on twitching

as if God is trying to say something

but I swallow his words

until my belly is full of *****

and he asks me to stop

because his testicles have shrivelled

to the Earth and the Moon.