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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