I don’t have an answer to that question, yet There are some indicators though, some tangible facts That can’t prove otherwise I feel my cells degenerate Not my skin cells, no But those of my soul Are those tangible enough? The metabolism of my brain and thoughts Once fast and high Is now slower than a turtle How can I know I am tired? I squeeze my thoughts to write this post Writing … which once was a natural process Requiring no efforts from my lousy heart, mind or fingers Is becoming a burden on my soul A weight I can’t get rid of I need to write to take the load off I need to take the load off to write Is that called brain metamorphosis? Is it a natural process of aging? Is it the lack of sunshine Or the excessive clouds shading my soul? Did I become that tired person I was constantly escaping from?
I enter the minds of random people Sitting around me in a bar I sneak into their tiny brains Fetch my way through the colored threads Of their most meaningless and their wisest thoughts I tiptoe around Looking for a unique idea, a mind blowing desire, Or a long forgotten memory, in the blackest hole of their minds And in a moment of revelation, I find one And then I spend the remaining hour or so Putting all my energy together Trying by all means to pull that thought, desire, or memory Out of their brains To shape it into airborne words that land on their tongues For a fraction of a second or two And then I pull them out of their mouths, slowly And I use those words to write my poems That’s what I do to kill time Sitting alone in a bar Killing can be a fun process And it puts together good pieces of words One after the other, In a useless poem
"pig correspondence", A New Collection of Poems
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Here at Lulu our Nickel Hole Press have just published *pig correspondence*,
a book of poems from a few years ago. This will be on Amazon in a few
weeks. ...
Where to?
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I have changed so much from the person I used to be, something I had
always known and felt for the past few years. What has changed is that I
have nothing...
Not Dead...
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I've decided that, after a near two-year hiatus from this blog, that it is
post-time to update. Here are some new publishings this year:
Otoliths
Gutter...
Crunked
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Crunked Poetry by Jack Henry 113 pages $17.50 Epic Rites Press, 2011
“Crunked was not written. Not even close, not even for a second. Crunked
was ripped fr...
You Are Thinking
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you are thinking
of all those you loved
and how they all went away.
bombs hit beside you
buildings crash
hell seems only a minute away.
and life is a roller ...