Fortune Walkup

When I decided to get the smile of a Cheshire cat

tattooed on my inner upper lip.

He mixed up the colors.

When I went to the ATM

there was a hole behind the machine-

I squeezed my shoulders through-

to a room full of unfamiliar friends.

The crawl space had recently been remodeled.

I did some things there that I forget-

then I went out a window.

Through the outer forest.

Out my inner ear.

Dank sticky cinema-

a jumbo fan blowing 

propaganda in the dark.

He had been waiting for hours.

To scratch my surface

To fill it with glow.

Each of these

Devises are involved

Similar to a pair of scissors

Folding

 floppy

flapping

are they structures to eat on?

Tabled on the true

For the moment of birth

An extremely unfavorable position

Relating to witchcraft and snowy forests

Epic wilderness magic

Elders with ice eye and chaulky wiskers

And youngster farmers

Blazing fires, cloaks and icons

Mingle with

Occultists and marco

polo

Dirty Blood

She once said:

“ your life is getting so small

 it could fit in a coffin”

Max’s coffin was the least

expensive. Seams bulging,

cuffs worming to escape.

The puny Jewish sons

strain with out my help.

Can you please define professional?

Well… it is not the same as amateur.

Now-  the feelings have changed.

And skeptical is the wrong word-

    I do believe cynical?

And the air is brisk and the hum is asphalt.

And words stack embarrassingly-

like a pelvic prayer mound.

And the food makes you fat and the water small

And the river splits

and now insert the fall.

And it’s something people have made their careers on…

The fall.

Dark and the rural.

Raised by a bicycle thief.

Ring leader, pipe hawker,

fuck you yeller

Manhole cover

collector.

Raised by an expelled

Ab Ex’er

Pipe bomb builder.

Steal this book, that steak, block of cheddar.

Inherited the guilt

For those who now walking.

And those who then plummet.

I crave extreme

(don't) let the end of the day

Leave        the world

And be a hero

a monk

a god      star beaming

to stand

on my feet

on the tops of them

to stand

on my hands

palms down

on the tops of them.