Monday, December 14, 1998

Bill the cowboy


cowboy angel telling me about life
living confined on the tip of a knife
cut out the heart one piece at a time
doesn’t have much but always has time
living inside the darkest and deepest hole
only a handshake I can offer to console
desperate living through everyone he meet
she wakes every day to the odds does he cheat
don’t know how he faces tomorrow
he says he bends under his cross of sorrow
wonders why he can’t stand on the feet he’s been given
what is it he has done and why hasn’t he been forgiven
by now all he’s done is wait for the next day
if I was him don’t know if I would be here today…

Monday, December 7, 1998

locked behind

1207/1998

then there was the envelope
on the table unopened
peering with condemning eyes
locked behind rows of spoons
nicely arranged
the light is flickering
no one notices
slowly destroying the self
inch by inch until
nothing will remain
to polish all the spoons
surrounded by light
and can't for a moment
understand how tomorrow will come
without thoughts of paper folded
stuck shut with glue
and all the shining spoons...