Ship

going to the slow boat
slow boat to stupidity

it is impossible to observe a robot at an altitude of twenty thousand feet
and other such wisdoms

these might be the names of the worst books in the world.

two of my old ones
were called from me
out of the sound of depths that
weren't the least bit poetic.

i hate poets
they are the worst
just talk and speak
and write how you feel.

A misspelled Seames Heany
should go back to his Beholding
of The First English Poem
and slice up his arm
after he does some heroin
the night before writing in some amnesiac dream
for the local press all on the same dope.

hey writers
you used to know things
until the day that post office sent you phenazipam
mixed with toulene that some sixteen year old schizophrenic
mixed in a dope lab somewhere in the Midwest.
Now you aint even infants, kids,
you can't even congu-ga-gate
the words to order your dumbass espresso at four thirty in the morning
because you had some peculiar drug reaction
that sent you wandering on the pavement
thinking you were Billy the Kid
and that your pen was a neologistic device
pinpointing Blackbeard's buried treasure.

Well I don't dope
don't even drink anymore.

I could care less
about the twitching nervous wreck with glasses
who twitched onto the bus
with a bunch of fucking pennies
and got off on the wrong bus stop

I could care more
about these deep overtures
I made
once
and not in the least

going and returning and going
without a horse to ride on
its like my life is filled
with these sideways elevator shuttles
that look like coffins
when I try to see who is driving.
fuck cars
get a horse and saddle it up to ride
call it something sensical like Latika
and wear a riding outfit
with an old rifle slung over your back,
hat braced for wind
with a compass on the pommel
but this is not advice
for people who strictly believe me
or the modern era.

could have told you anything as opposed to something
but now there's this matter of a ship.

oi gevalt

used to be an Archter but only one person understood that
how the lithium cleaves instead heals
since lithium carbonate is used to manufacture industrial glass.

no one to speak to or of
what happened
for fucks sake
to conversation