Strangeness and Charm

There’s only one thing I know of
that can hurt you

I love girls with lipstick
and matching fingernail polish
and black hair with green eyes and the New Yorker,

on a fake café table
with slice of foreboding,
pecan pie and a cup of espresso
and endless stream of airships
from Coalbrookdale

This longing fills my much needed void,
the room I never knew existed

Kerron teille tytöstä

Pesen kuluneen yön iholtani,

samalla hetkellä emme tiedä
missä olemme,
mihin olemme menossa,

meillä ei ole muuta
kuin tämä ihmisen epävarmuus

I didn’t feel the way it seemed like I might feel

• The proverbial butterflies.

• The desire to have her think well of me.

• The desire to lay myself out beside her.

• The desire for the world to see her next to me.

• The flittering conviction that she in fact is the whole world.

I Try Not To Believe

Tell me about your high heels
traveling through time.
Tell me how to stay in touch,
how to become a shadow, or a light spot.

I doubt our book selves
would’ve been compatible,
the boredom of your topless nights
on my bed in your red panties
reading Sartre

The bottomless nights of my girls of ill repute,
the improbable dreams

Our lives lack formative events,
our bodies were so thin
we got bruised making love

Todet ja olennot #1

Näistä olennoista tosia ovat vain ääriviivat,
suorat katseet jotka kertovat etten voi
toistaa mennyttä

Tuon varastin Bob Dylanilta,
Leonard Cohenilta varastin
naismaun, Lou Reediltä
Nicon puhelinnumeron

Ehkä hänen ja kahden portain
maalatun seinän välissä
voin vihdoin hengittää

Onkohan
Lou Reedillä
koskaan hikka?

This Is Not Life

This is not the life passing you by,
it’s the city, breathing,
a light in the park burning
bright through my window

Burning bright, she’s wearing those stockings again

The metaphysical art of her
legs inhaling our asymmetric love
and she’s not paid to understand,
and her arms to hold my weight,
and love is always asymmetric

Burning bright, I heard her footsteps exhale

That was the night my handwriting changed