five

5.

my thoughts have centered
on a five year old going through
times tables
skipping every five digits
because she's convincing me
its music, its the basis
its the beat
like the ripples in that green planet
under your feet, you feel it?
getting a face lift
she's concerned with her hand completly open
with its appendages telling the Truth
the earth getting the artics tucked between sweden and north canada
completly screwing up Queen Elizabeth's Way
and taking just a little more sun from arian children
the man that grew from under my carpet
is pointing pages at the world
they
are littered with fingertip sweat
and i don't have the heart
to kindly lower his furious aim
anyway he took me for twenty washingtons
at pantana bob's tonight
serves him well when the midlifecrisis(ed) globe whips his chin a little more south
we take our beatings
we show off scars
humans are gorgeously scarred
it knocks up poetry
but the dark skinned chaps take shells to the head
completly killing their chances to brag
hiding the expelled warheads under their head wraps
fifteen.. twenty...
man!
she learns quick these days
media tables doing the math
push of a button
saddest four words
"push.
of.
a button."
once again i am fearful of the iron curtain
little girl don't take ethnic cleansing from strangers
everything is a countdown these days
buisnessmen are travellin back in time to put bleach in their water reserves
and really i'm too (Y)oung 2 (K)ill
really i'm not ready
i've got ten diplomas on call waiting
i'm fixing up houses in the steel city
for people too wrinkled to point their fingers in the sky
my mates are planning on toasting the nearest drink to the seven horsemen
Jesus please make sure I have on the right underclothes
Jesus please don't make a mockery of the things I did when I was seventeen
my professor told me i was a beautiful American
Sir, can I put it on my resume'?
Sir can you use her tables
for the white side of my soul
will You wash the liars from my nightly news
can I come back as a child knowing times...

times...
tables before my time?
admittingly i wasn't handing out tracks in the Big Easy
but they were calling the leather one's of us faggots
sodomites
can You induct some even if they mistakingly didn't remember
black leather was out in the first scare
can You pull the face of my planet
out of a grocery-store magazine reality
maybe give jennings a vision at six in the evening
i once embraced him in high-school at a football game
he was broadcasting live
he was down in charlotte for some up(lifting) news
it was during the time of that green war we watched until five thirty in the am
with those gas prices, remember the gas prices?
twenty five.. thirty...
we pointed our fingers at that sony screen
trying to pick the exact spot in bagdad that would be opened
was watching for the flaming gates of the other place
to open and swallow that other religion
upping the sacred tiger petrolium
Jesus, we're just doing the math
universal language and all
65 sparkling glossy pages
one that has a new smell
folded a little at the edge
sulfer?
valdeze?
patriot shaped diamonds?
priceless
ain't it funny in the end?
when i can say math didn't matter
when i didn't let bygones be what they were
missed some important dates in april
as the industrialized world
took one knee to a five year old girl
on the cover
who's mother has killed her 75 times over in the tabloids
satan was nifty
putting up the machines and blinding
with a smiling time clock
leap year happens however often
but not, mind you, dammit
on 2000
You know what You're doing.
women are pulling up their hair in beehives these days
hiding their smaller children
in bombshells
their bigger prayers in chapels
but they have fled the nation
ripped the stained glass windows
numbed themselves to thimble Holocausts
issue 25 v.VIV Time My99
card catalog
positioned and pretty
sweety, our baby's outgrowing her sunday clothes...
doll, come here, climb up:
open your hands.






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