Stay with me for this—ten days in a row:

Lifted on earthquake magic

Playing the broken speaker for necessity—sound of epic legions

Sick poet legions and bad protocols that drive artists insane

More than once I was taken to the edge and almost jumped

Since then it’s been very clear

Nothing is made to last and I love you for that

Our skull of skulls 

split open as the mind soup pours into the sky

I screamed for the cancer patients

I screamed for the painters who don’t have the space to paint

I screamed eloquently 

at the banquet of crushed titans

Trust me

It pays to deny 9 to 5

It pays to avoid your ‘responsibilities’

for bigger responsibilities like reading poems

Picking flowers and painting three thousand black circles in a row

Ink alone does not save lives

So I electrify the ink until it autobahns my blood towards the future

Welcome me home vampire bats

Come crown me with nothing special

I will remove my teeth to prove all coronations are fake

I will speak the Final Word which is the First Word—as follows

Rotate the cemetery

See it as garden

Recognize the mountain tunnel dynamite song

Drive-drive-drive 30 hours to San Diego

Racing through the pitch black with extreme caution

Ignore the spelling errors

Hardly legible in the city those stars are

Rewind the tape and never play it again

These are instructions for living in 8 places at once

Find yourself touching sand beneath waterfalls

Irrigation

Propeller symphonies

I promise

No one can disregard you

Not in any meaningful way

And this is because I will not disregard you

And the daisies will not disregard you

And because I have screamed for you already

Praying that everyone who wants piano lessons gets them

Praying minimum wage is raised and then abolished

Praying with vinegar swash howling two months beneath porch light

I insist

that you film the sidewalk

Eat the pumpkin seeds in June

And if you can, find gold rope—wear it—climb forever

I, just like you, want to escape more than anything

And I, like you, don’t have that choice

So I suggest

Eat the shoreline

And the daikon radish of the shoreline

And the $15 kite used once

left in the garage for dust sunsets to prove time

Only for time to be disproven by the clockless casino

and the infinite chance to take chance for a ride

Hello again

Welcome in

I am here for you

Inasmuch as I bleed the selfsame star

Dripping those questions I cannot answer

But I have written down the wifi code to hive mind

tucked away in the card deck

Ace

River

Joker obviously

2,652 combinations

Count the branches

just to see how quickly you lose count

And that is how fast your life is

A lost count of endless growth

Sideways and up

Down jagged

I pray

I pray so hard

To find the magic again

And the magnifying glass

And the roads that lead to something I’ve never seen

which is every road I’ve never taken

Easy enough

to find

to go that way

when good and ready

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