talking of michelangelo...
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moi moi moi

7.31.2002
the break room smells like indian food...
thanks to me! puahahahaha

i have been feeling quite uninspired as of late, but at the same time am craving a change to the page (plus, i don't want to tempt a certain someone with the last posting.... =P)
as a compromise, i think i'll post something i wrote last year...inextricably linked to the last one

take two

I.

cross-step waltzing, partner-less,
arms straight
extending expectant hands,
palming hope

blackness obstructs like soot
mixed with tar, but less grainy,
obstructs, obfuscates
                    eyes
                            ears

from which originate
veins to heart-
shaped wire whitewashed garden-
seat of the soul

ends of each vein,
desperately, despondently dilated,
they swell, quenched symphonic
by slight tinkles of laughter
drizzling down windowpanes:

it is a rhythmic security,

a friend in the dark.

II.

warmth of sunlight
causes
remains of Kant, printed immortal
to be exposed to 20 minutes of dust

warmthlessness in dark,
a baton signifying north and south,
changes directions
each time the cadet twirls.

even so,
light grazes shadowed cheeks,
magnetized and drawn
transforming harsh desk lamps
and searing light
into fireworks barely diffused into the night

like Jupiter
in a coffee cup.

gaseous planet emits
bean steam every morning at 6 o’clock
wafting from choo choo train engines from the 1860’s

brushes against forehead,
                        eyes,
                            ears
until,
unkissable cheeks kissed.

a lesson:
earmuffs, like
thick plastic
covering rumbling windowless vehicle windows
protect body heat
lost through
ears, much like

the exiting warmth from my soul-
british toy soldiers, marching in warm, yellow light shining forty- five degrees upwards,
away from my heart
the hypotenuse of a right triangle

cascading heat emitted from the desk lamp
southerly deadlocks
toy soldier pomp and circumstance

stops

Returns.


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