Friday, February 11, 2011

a case of you









Oh I could drink a case of you darling

And I would still be on my feet

Oh I would still be on my feet


_____________ - Joni Mitchell




inside, the telephone

rings

by buzzing


blue-black Farrington people

a Chinese-woman-looking object

stuffed with

advice


prostitutes on sawed-America

sponge clowns

making cakes and

dancing around them ____________________ [the subject]


bless you, the Capricorn

of my summer sunburn and

bruise


recovery known by durations


the baby

birds

on the window pane


how they pluck smiles

like the feathers

they don’t have

yet


the second flight

of stairs

feels better


than the first

you tried to sleep

for three days

and I stopped calling

you in the morning


already tired

of peeking

into your breaking