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hot out there
amorphous dry
breeze
tugging at the elbows or shirt
hung stomach
pleasantly sweaty
back stuck to seat
car
with the a/c kickin’ in eyes
lacking too much tears
and mouth wavering with the endless
music tunes

passing a couple dozen businesses
pounding rubber on the streets
and shaking with that coming in train

counting dollars
with that
‘some sorta’
mindfulness
which attempts
to consider ongoing loss
and worldy degradation

but falls short of real sympathy
and never amounts to changing the world

and driving by the recycling center downtown
to deposit an arm full
of faith in something

to get back
and plummet into ourselves
beneath a ceiling fan
beside a window

poetry dough
rising

not-so-far-away bodies
trembling

causeless violence unleashed

soft-but-firmly-held rages twinkle
like stars and we see vestiges of time
bent by gravity and space provoked
on over eager streams of liveliness

and fear is crushing strength
violence is crushing love
humanity is crushing itself

as if we’ve forgotten how to speak

it is poetry’s job to teach
what words mean
on their own and to each other
beside or opposed to one another

and how and when they provoke any semblance
of our reality’s order

we must forget what we know
what we’ve known
and learn to talk again

my infant psyche
provocations
the terror in empty heart widening
and split peas leak out of cabinets
at my feet
while i knead at flour
and people murdered in the street
come alive in voiced chorus towers
becoming the street’s wind
and push come to shove endings

flanks of men
and tear gas
squeeze children eyes like grapes

promises add up as specks of dirt
towards unavoidable grime
stuck in the gears

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from Poems: Live From Bookmarx Local Writers Reading Series, released July 7, 2015

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