who am saturated in narrative, because the bleed
and you, with your rickshaw, on a run
and my unshaven stockings (unmended)
every Tuesday, by the waterfront
a bouquet of roses, floating separately downstream
bound for yoga class, or market
where the oblong vendors, oddly cubicled
sprout their florid obscenity
politics, and we always (pretend to)
ignore them
The avatar for interaction, or love
in a time of (inter-
active) software I (too) am given to
addictions Horse-
less people, of the plane, and
made of paper The string of non-
relations maps the context 'we'
feel out of Fall from sky, as in
the usual: an ordinary Tuesday Now
it's Tuesday, and your ledger book
's been lost You're on an island, made
of rowboats (w/out oars) You
find a number to hold on-
to What is gained
in this? Is
there a surplus?
A cathartic pied stomping
of rats, as in the pestilence
And our dressed all
in whites, as in
the ignorance Or tempered
hope, as upon hope, as
in illogic -- us
in center Name
the instrument, and bathe
the instrument That it
might enter, on
its way (in dutied
cleanliness) a purposed
cleanliness
unloveable
in the well
spring sunken
eyes i
walk to school
unknowable as
is to say alive i
linger on the edge
her corner property
i bark like dog i
read reprisals
of dead actor i
identify the little
shards in moments
you most you and
watch them
catch to
try another
i dunno, man, most
of the time, but some-
times i also
don't know, but think
that i know, it goes
like that (and this) and
more of the same,
with you all
over there
shining your shoes
or whatever, trying on
the YOU know face,
not even
wearing shoes, but
standing
(or sitting) be-
side a very
large pile, and
thinking 'bout
what they'd feel
like on
your feet
Brian Pillion is a recent re-resident of Portland, OR wherein he is seeking for to desk/lamp/chair his way into a productive and smiled upon member of the community. If you've claim to such never quite cleanly possessables, seek him out. He shall love you in poems.