Now his breath is black,
like the space between the stars.
And his eyes lower
to meet the soil on planet earth.
But the sun is bright and still-
it still writes lines on the river;
and it will set always
so the moon can take its place.
And the moon, also, will shine down;
for eternity, they say.
And he himself shall bring nothing;
his body does not stop the harvest;
his soul does not tint the clouds;
his absence does not fill a single pitcher.
And so his word is written
as it melts back to the earth.
Where he becomes, and she becomes: it.
As his eyes fail to see,
and his nerves fail to feel,
and the tree in his yard
reache
from catastrophe to incident,
i've/ seen/ your precedents.
yes, you are magical;
you've got the head of a jackal.
magical, indeed.
when you're on the streets,
people/ hand you money.
yeah, your voice is just like honey;
that/'s why you've got/ that cash/.
yes, you are magical;
magical, indeed.
you folk dress so nicely.
i hope it ain't so pricey.
one day i'd like to/ be you.
yes, you are magical,
i saw your suit turn black;
magical, indeed.
i don't think you could ever lie/.
Now his breath is black,
like the space between the stars.
And his eyes lower
to meet the soil on planet earth.
But the sun is bright and still-
it still writes lines on the river;
and it will set always
so the moon can take its place.
And the moon, also, will shine down;
for eternity, they say.
And he himself shall bring nothing;
his body does not stop the harvest;
his soul does not tint the clouds;
his absence does not fill a single pitcher.
And so his word is written
as it melts back to the earth.
Where he becomes, and she becomes: it.
As his eyes fail to see,
and his nerves fail to feel,
and the tree in his yard
reache
from catastrophe to incident,
i've/ seen/ your precedents.
yes, you are magical;
you've got the head of a jackal.
magical, indeed.
when you're on the streets,
people/ hand you money.
yeah, your voice is just like honey;
that/'s why you've got/ that cash/.
yes, you are magical;
magical, indeed.
you folk dress so nicely.
i hope it ain't so pricey.
one day i'd like to/ be you.
yes, you are magical,
i saw your suit turn black;
magical, indeed.
i don't think you could ever lie/.
And I don't know when I'll bother. If ever. My desktop computer is currently fried, and I don't know how to fix it. I'm stuck on the netbook which I sure as hell am not editing photos on.
The past couple years of my life have been some kind of strange cycle, in numerous ways. I plan to break out of this. I am changing everything. Maybe my name even. Whether or not this will profile will survive these changes, I guess will be known.
I'm just not going to bother with those poems. Instead I figured I'd start up an account for poetry on another site under a completely different name and tell no one where it is. It's sort of an experiment.
So now this profile is for photography and stuff.
(EDIT: I also now have a Pentax 645N medium format film camera now. So I'll be doing a lot of fun stuff with that.)
I recently wrote a series of okay but very personal poems.
I want to submit them but having them up is essentially like having naked pictures of myself uploaded, except, for my mind.
So should I take the leap?