Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Distraction

A Library.

Twelve chairs, four sets of three.

A black jacket draping over the back of chair one.

Emergency exit fifteen feet from my whereabouts.


A painting.

An old man holding a book in his lap.

A lawyer, maybe?

gold frame accenting his trapped expression


A skylight.

Dead fauna with no escape.

Yet the emergency exit is just beneath them.

Too bad they have no means of transportation-the wind must be greedy.


An electrical outlet.

Six holes leading somewhere mysterious.

Only the computer chargers really know.

How unfair.


So how did I get here again?

a year and I am just seeing this.

My fingers should be devoted to an essay.

Yet they long to predict what my mind is currently observing.


Monday, May 10, 2010

“Hit me with your best shot, cause now, I’m invincible

too normal

glanced up,

constant circular motion

without knowledge of

anything

echoing,

left hand slowly penetrating.

her right hand said hello.

her mother’s name in my best handwriting;

consent

a child resembles its mother

an image

innocent and helpless

loiter in me forever.

I need to talk

my permission to go on with the procedure

you haunt me, white room

leave now

my eyes-

not feel or remember what was going to happen

in awe, not sure what to say

response not needed

-printed on this 8” by 11” sheet of white paper-

shut out