Narrative Variations
I will first present an example of a causal relationship
A Causal Relationship
Mo’ Money + Mo’ Problems
Translation:
what if all your carefully selected
happiness only make you unhappy?
Note: a casual relationship is when you buy the milk because you don’t want to be responsible for the cow.
Speaking of
Economics
a girl I know
shortened the word conversation to convo
and saved five years worth of time
not speaking the two superfluous syllables
but she never writes poems
another girl I know
takes credit
for prolly
from probably
somehow the ascetics work and I use this too
This is Disjunctive
every time
you laugh
someone
you don’t
know dies
of cancer
The Eternal Harmony
you are about to die right this instant
unless you aren’t
Hamlet + sparrow = right to the very bloody end
Compromise
wearing one dirty sock and one clean one
Question: are all compromises deals with the devil
Selfishness and Chaos Theory and Perdition
the paper coffee cup you left on the roof of your car
was the one a Caltrans worker was about to pick up
as he was his by a car
and his wife was called
and his wife called her only daughter and they cried
three months later
you would meet the daughter
and fall in love with her
and never know
why she cried so much a movies
or that it was because of you
sometimes we make people happy
in just such a way
it is not something you can trace
with a pencil
it is mysterious
like when you write on foggy window glass
with your finger
Anxiety
some people are afraid to die
more than anything else
others are just as terrified
of betraying their friends
Hope/Despair
what if your children
grow up like weeds
and not flowers
what if they grow up flowers
and you are the weeds
what if they are better than you
because of/despite you
"We don’t like people we don’t like
to like the things we like"
my friend said that (hence the quotation)
but I said this
everyone is afraid
that anyone can do the one thing that they do
there is really no other way
to end this poem
other than to end it.
