Sometimes life is
Like a bad movie
A headache in the making
Heartbeat
Fast asleep
Dreams of singing cover
Songs in Czechoslovakian
Stop breathe
Wait and see
Climb into the loft
With me
Hang out in a memory
An end to winter
Walking barefoot
Under the stairs
I remember nights
Like that only
It wasn’t just about
Meaningless stuff
Most of it was good
© GÄ
Self destructive need
To defy authorities
Probably won’t choke out
The fact that you don’t care
Doesn’t matter anyway
Remember the conversation
We had about being too much
Keeping up with the
Usual opportunities
It’s nice to know we can
Live to jump again
Close encounters
With the potential
Suspects for clinical
Undermining are not
Only a matter of public
Concerns but a fact
Which has been disrupted
Even a bottle tossed
Into the sea
Cannot answer
Is the back and forth
Deserving of a dose or two
Would Thorazine
Cure the symptom
Or just cause more frequent
Tongue thrusting in the end?
If the gods of transportation
Could be kind enough
To provide an exit route
Then I suppose
There are worse things
Than being crazy
Somewhere else
© GÄ
Eating soup eating soup
Nothing left broken teeth
Underneath nothing left
Still we cover up the crime
In the clink of our endgame
Inside the body arrived
Black web of deception
What is easy, what is hard?
One step at a time
Ringside we decide
One step at a time
Maybe the Bahamas
Maybe Greece
Or Copenhagen
Old old young
Someone again
Wake up one day
Old old young
Light eyes dark eyes
Circles and lies
Friendship cries
I remember you
Invincible
People try to warn you
A little bit short
On the remaining balance
A trip to Mexico go, go
Cheaper there
Go because we’re not
Getting any younger
Go because you want
To live fifty years longer
Be someone again
Go because you’re
Gonna wanna kiss
Someone again
© GÄ
Seeking empathy will
Gain you nothing
So many days I have
Wandering in aimlessness
Where has all the
Empathy gone?
Was I living under
Some rock
When the devotion
To greedy emotion
Settled in
Head in a trash bag
Or under a shadow
I swear only a pillow
In my sleep
Did it happen in my sleep?
That I woke up from a dream or
Some made up fantasy
That people are
Capable of empathy?
Folks comparing their own
Breakdowns and setbacks
To yours because they can’t
Climb out of their
Own pits and here
I see myself running round
Chasing empathy
Hoping you’ll see me
Chasing empathy
Wondering recklessly
Chasing empathy
Feelings escaping me
Chasing empathy
© GÄ
Each note
Each line
Every chord
I design
Haunts the hallway
With drowning sounds
Of suffocation
Chewing away the tears
Letting out
Again in backbends
I find
Finally with flowers
Prominent laughter
I see smiling
Glints of
What was forgotten
And what can
Become found
© GÄ
Is it my own disdain
That plays make believe
With myself about the
Unsightly behaviors of others
Or a perfectionistic trait
To want the best outcome
For us all
Am I attacked
Or the attacker?
A silent encroachment
A timid lunge
An irritation that
Scratches at the back
Of my head exploding
My mind into what is
Suddenly shattered
Broken in mirror-like
Shards of brightness
Highlighting the darkest
Parts of the back spatter
Of a lifetime of fun
Only outlined, chalked
Crime de la cœur
Two possible explanations
Boredom or voracity
Either way only
Tenderness can find
A way through the maze
Of oversensitivity
A little context in foreign
Castrating remarks
Neither clever or otherwise
Smart enough I
Parry and shirk out the guardrail
Opening up
© GÄ
She wants only for herself
She wants only for her
She waits only for herself
She waits only for her
Nothing left
Nothing left
Bouncing off
The hopeless hap
The helpless gap
The hapless crap
She wants only for herself
I don’t believe that
It can’t be true
I need a smoke
I need a drink
I need more time to think
But I prefer to do it
Sober and alone
With a piano
Passed out drunk
On the floor
Intoxicated only
By the music
Of my deafening heartbeat
© GÄ
You don’t apply the same
Expectations you have on others
To yourself and everything’s
A syndrome of something else
Fuck the syndromes
Maybe we’re just human
What happens when the love
Breaks down and the brutal
Emotional stabbing goes on
Lest life abandon us all
Must we find time to enjoy it
Before we come
To the end of it all
Say goodbye to the cunt
Of an existence
That was holding you back
A person
A place
Or a thing
Waking up from the night
Of denial I am reminded
Of a future self
Almost presented as
A past recollection
That you are only
Looking out for yourself
Driving a wedge
You may weaken your own
Empathy by placating
A cinematic character
Of yourself in some
Casablancan way
Being consciously capable
Befalling my actions
I have happily escaped
© GÄ
My normalcy is electronic
Insanity world crashing down
No video stalemate a wall
Most vulnerable and
Succulent for the taking
I stood at the window
Of my back porch
Barefoot and oblivious
Repeating
What’s next!
What’s next?
Many of us want to be
Held I’m sure today
I felt that way a bit more
Like I was hoping to
Crawl back into bed with
Someone or even bolster
Up some gladitude
Knowing I had nowhere
To be or go but back into
Some silly situation
In a messy bed
But the grey sky
Offered me many delights
Knowing that if not today
Some other
© GÄ
Can we overstream?
Exploit the bandwidth
All too often many of us
Take so many nothings
And turn them into somethings
A confluence of almost
Fate like circumstances
Leading us to be
Captured by the enemy
Believing our only hope
Is left to the art of
Abandoning ourselves
According to fate
And spiral notebooks
What then shall we do
To entertain ourselves
Catch fire to the ends
Of our robes and run
Madly through the hallways
Of some less than favorable
Hotel that was easy to
Book because no one else
Wanted to stay there?
Write poems to one another
Read them and then
Roll them up into
Wands of sage or
Peace pipes and
Smudge one another?
Actually sounds like a
Great weekend if
You haven’t any better ideas
© GÄ
Poétique 