Saturday, June 30, 2018

FACIAL MATTER

Notorious for putting on the kind of smile that would take down a plane of reality at a distance of up to one solar system stepping up the blood feathers were drenched and the perch was inverted without a washer to do the past week's load of dirty laundry. He took him to the window and had him look at the crowd that had dispersed. His new partner had denied there ever was a crowd. So, he shared with him what the next door neighbor had told him about the table the kids had dragged out of the house and how it only had 3 legs and one of them stood by that corner because that was their job their assigned task their reason for being a part of the little band of kids to begin with and while they stood there they thought of being outside and their pants had been too small for so long was this growing up and when whatever you were involved with didn't have enough legs to stand on you were the leg? Was that it? Hard to pay attention to what else was going on and the crowd that was alleged to have gathered to see not much of a crowd if there ever was one.

I'm repeating myself less
sometimes
but he keeps listening 
to amuse me or himself
or hear it again
really repeating myself less
sometimes
the words are roped
or coiled in the garage
tried to consolidate the boxes
accidentally broke the one
that holds them all together
my brain is running out 
the sides of my neck
that's where I feel the most
pressure
escaping


- Max Stoltenberg

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