A weightless tango devolves
to a postcoital dreamless state.
Brain stars circle and dust showers collide.
Monstrance
Saint Moonbeam (The alternate-reality, better version
Jerry Brown meets Linda Rondstadt when he’s still in the Jesuit seminary, see. Jerry wants to drop out, but Linda is overwhelmed. She writes “Different Drum” and breaks his heart. Jerry recovers and eventually becomes Pope. Linda realizes (too late) he was the great love of her life. She sings “Long, Long Time” and pines (really pines).
The days disappear like waves
Dreaming my way to you
For all your roads you’ve left
no one real one,
just this scent and broken twig
and heady subjugation.
People
Dogs
Why faith doesn’t do what it should do
The lesser god of absence
One day we’ll know
You don’t want to be in Ubud
At this hour
on this street
if you’re looking for enlightenment.
Or does it indeed begin
with monkeys and chimes
and the gas of a million machines?
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