Alone = All one

Metal trees

Subtle breeze.

Metal teachers

Deep freeze.

Metal heart

Perfect chart.

Metal offspring

Falls apart.

Music seeps through a suburban screen door, 
a concrete step is cracked, dirty and ready, 
paint peels, blades trim
flashes of blue flicker through chinks in the curtains:  
life inside.

I like the sound of pencil on paper

Harsh but fluid, urgent, intimate.

The letters stretch and anchor

Thoughts, moments, memories, you.

I like the sound of fingers clicking keys

An officious frenzy:  important, immediate, imperial.

He said he would kill his parents if he could fuck John Lennon.

Crooked teeth teacher

Rookie heathen preacher

I took you for a keeper

Delusion ran deeper.

Those goddamn champagne gangsters sure did a number on you.

Drunk on status
The saddest
Bullshit apparatus
Of ironic immersions
And corporate conversions.

Take it free and easy while you can,

But if it’s too easy, too much of the time

Then it probably doesn’t count.

Straight out leech

Sad angry freak

Carrier of the weak

Mild meek streak --

     Please

Rattle and seek.

Rattle and seek.

Rattle and seek:

    For peace.