May 1, 2025
Poetry
public beach and s is for negation

public beach you pull blades of grass twist them bow ties afraid to swim show your body I fall waves glide dumb eyes shut you sit on shore a boy staring down edge flat Earth falling dreaming no dream no we were both (I say it now) adopted bodies once removed forwarding shaky crests spilling breakers look silly dogs dance and pee on public land gull wing feathers mark now X we dust sand kids run waves forwarding we ride from Frenchman’s you hold me on the bike each stop start you fall catch stop start lost an earring I want to tell you slipped off Earth or skittered hell down road I want I want to I want to tell you s is for negation &for scrounging for sinking stinking empty signifying for sliding so sorry singing somatising for Schrödinger kitty killing &for falling failing forgetting always fidgeting &reiterating for Felicity &Fiona for flagrancy larceny hair lice residency &for banana peeling dreaming slipping 10 sec just wow finishing for sucking/blowing for fighting unto losing i.e. not winning for sabotaging coasting running doodling hoarding and not sweating for not just being for not bees-kneeing for not (except for ass) kissing for not washing for not working for not waiting for always wah-wahing for blabbing biting bullying yelling yodeling yawning tearing &teething for sitting with you standing for I-ing and not thouing dogging dodging deking for empty promising blasting cruising &spendthrifting with poor souls dying for Mr. Tambourine Man-ing w/bootheels not wandering for sleepy being and not followin’ you for evening’s empire not returning into sand nor vanishing from my hand &for name-dropping star-fucking talent-draining scatter-braining for garbage eating gate-hopping binge-watching &fart-ripping for clowning w/o smiling for grabbing w/o thanking not even nodding for remembering &then repeating without remembering not even for liquor for licenselessness for stolen sentences used any old way &for sleeping splayed below blue sky w/door of beauty shut all day