Foggy Glasses

sustained sustenance

2010-09-10T17:27:00.003-04:00

when the food

treated like a science experiment

full of productivity

how do we digest before our innards digress?

and tastebuds rebel at the supecilious smell

of soaked-up pharmaceuticals

where what used to be natural and neutral

is the top-tier on the shelf, organic

if you ever wonder where it went

spent

calculated profits on the rise for our tasty artificial surprise

the market is so miscegenated that there is no escape

even the peanuts have muscles

om

2010-05-17T17:37:00.000-04:00

what is it

sparkling

around all corners

lasciviously waiting

to spring into inaction?

her.

2008-12-14T16:48:00.001-05:00

this normal girl awoke my heart
that i did not know was sleeping
i was afraid at first
it is getting comfortable
to be
alive in there again
old enough to realize
love at first sight is
a fairytale
even if sometimes i am
too much
we should be friends
people will think we're related
that is safe enough
nice kids having fun
some day closer than ever
that feeling will come
from somewhere else
it will be easier to notice
because i can now remember
what it feels like
in the beginning
where everything is possible

2008-12-01T21:56:00.002-05:00

One touch
Sends shivers
Feels
Like nothing else in the universe
Pinpointing
A moment
Transfixing time and space together
To now
Where we blur boundaries,
Meshing

2008-11-23T15:37:00.001-05:00

If the city
Be a Bastion of perplexity
How can we distill it,
That significant essence,
Into a spirit potion
to be shared
Liquid magnificence
The confused roar silenced

night

2008-11-16T13:17:00.001-05:00

i dream the sky intrepid
in the light of a blushing moon
strains of baritone sax madness filling the room
on a sunday afternoon

....dearest friend:

2008-09-02T19:31:00.001-04:00

Aaron is a song in the air
Looping back
Resounding
Simply
The best person I have ever known.
There would never have been enough time
To drink him in..
...for he was infinite, and still is.

- x -
Aaron Douglas Pollack
11/25/78 - 2/28/08
RIP, my man, rest in peace.

2008-05-24T18:40:00.001-04:00

if the darkness
lays her laser hand
(green like money)
on footsteps
treading threadbare;
stare at her
and do the watusi with medusa,
showing her how you can dance
entranced

2008-05-24T18:37:00.001-04:00

when fools rush in
i am one of them
insipid and wry
wheat and rye
biding
and hiding
in the morass
gentle the climate past

pumpernickel

2008-05-24T18:36:00.001-04:00

sinuous and dense
life is in tenses
dancing sentences
and breath
cascading syncopation
in time

2008-05-24T18:34:00.001-04:00

speckles of the world
fly about
jazz
be-bop-a-lula in my head
blowing
leaves

poetry to the universe, xxx

2007-03-04T18:44:00.000-05:00

alligator people
wearing crocodile shoes
shed alligator tears
listening to lizard music

poetry to the universe, xxix

2007-03-04T18:42:00.000-05:00

one third, absurdly
growing tired of transfusions
refuse infusions of chameleonic tonic
skewering to embrace the tall
spiny grass
at the end of the line
queued to beseech a mumbling
quetzalcoatl mutter
uttered
as tortured cells
trickle down the street
broken

poetry to the universe, xxviii

2007-03-04T18:40:00.000-05:00

in the long, tall grass
there was a hidden meaning
rolling in it
shunted by blades
coming later to swish and cut me
whistling
jailor miscreant
the gauzy earth
unable to soak up brilliant

poetry to the universe, xxvii

2007-03-04T18:37:00.000-05:00

porpoises ate my poised dolphins
on purpose
blowhole splutter
unimaginable
gripping the incredible tale
told as an allegory
in such a ravenously stilted quay
unseen
and still surprising me
with the psychological cruelty of animals

poetry to the universe, xxvi

2007-03-04T18:34:00.000-05:00

a martyr's trumpet
played a morbid song
i had never heard before
standing there
holding my jug of jagged love
legs flailing akimbo
strewn about the room
have me entombed
in strains of sad sad songs
when i could not write music

poetry to the universe, xxv

2007-03-03T13:54:00.000-05:00

mustachioed madmen under surveillance
folded flowcharts on their knees
bow to kowtow roundhouse towers
inescapable purview
persistent
memories
in mammaries of leather
they stood
grammatically correct at one time
their punctuation no longer in favor
like the people of the gilded paper brigade

poetry to the universe, xxiii

2007-03-02T21:00:00.000-05:00

the crime scene
has teeth
and hair

burglars
run rampant

and law
cannot keep up

psychic avengers
take ransoms
from everyone

in shackles
we travel
blind

poetry to the universe, xvii

2007-03-02T05:42:00.000-05:00

remains of a slaughtered lamb
trace particles on a tired plate
bed of lettuce
broken under the weight of wilted green

and the savory
has swum right out of it
leaving only traces
of brine

a wound in wool

poetry to the universe, xvi

2007-03-02T00:41:00.000-05:00

if you can hear me,
listen

i am a wailing wall
with ears agape

only now looking through the dark fields
hearing the revolutions

poetry to the universe, xi

2007-03-01T21:00:00.001-05:00

innocence
is for fools

and children

poetry to the universe, ix

2007-03-01T20:46:00.000-05:00

stars still shine
brightly

from millions of miles away
even after they cease to exist

poetry to the universe, vii

2007-03-01T20:42:00.000-05:00

i exhale
and there is air

it is not always the same
as that which infiltrated me

a transformation occurs

rising

2006-06-28T22:44:00.000-04:00

               i die
anew

    every
day
   phoenix
           in a moment
here
   to stay

jimmy dean

2006-06-27T03:17:00.002-04:00


loners are               
                               disillusioned

           i am one too

for lack of
                  an intent full
                       intensive playmate

    toying with things
                             alone

                   choosing

not to be understood