Friday, July 8, 2016

Here In Dallas, July 8




'nother day
staying away, distant
protests on the streets

neighbours
your brother
your sister

people killed in neighborhoods
none of this affects us
courage

same ol’ hotel room
she is locked in the bathroom/two hours
she mourns his father

shee cries because shee cannot do anything else
& it has always been the most comfortable thing
men who win

those who lose
tragic events in our bones
what does it matter

I only ask for a rye
but there is no rye
form of compassion


here in dallas, texas, today, live.


Saturday, May 28, 2016

Bill Evans



He had just won the academy award
for the best supporting actor

things end so soon
things end like that

people in the early hours of the day
he took the car, chet baker

everything was so easy
down from the hills
the green
people

what can be said
after success
a persistent success

for a whole lifetime

while the others
are watching you

windows
hiding places that they create


bill evans


Sunday, April 24, 2016

Kenner






Cab covers much of the way to the airport speeding. 95 mph. Driver’s name: Lorraine-Delavriere-Hauteux, identification number 1-9-6-7, Taxicab and For Hire Vehicles Bureau License. Name of the Cab Company, translated from Haitian Creole: Sweets Losses. Car's vermilion with bluish signs. Now Kenner is a dazzle white bloodbath. The land is swollen. Dark collection of black garlands under a thousand year old damp dome. This dome is living here. It moves and crushes the metal structures of the airport, the corroded vaults of the hangars, the service roads for the collapse of time. In the years before the catastrophe, the airport could boast about a prestigious speed record in goods uploading and downloading. The proverbial speed with which they deprived the bellies of civilian aircraft, amassing the baggages of lonesome passengers. Lorraine's neck is pretty minute and compact. By force of circumstances a white off measure t-shirt makes her exaggerated, makes her dirtier than she can be in the Eden Valley. Hair are crisps and brown with touches of red lead, while a nichel-necklace is made of emerald green wooden balls. Drive like a maniac in the the streets of December, the bolt of lightning goddess at the mercy of the white-haired martyr. Refineries with filled yellow lights. Trombone Yellow. Sulfur. Amber. Unnatural heights antennas - intermittent crimson. Dormant Telecommunications in Kenner's lie. Lorrie drives. She goes on. One nine seven six Taxicab and For Hire Vehicles Bureau License. We left Canal at 6.50 am. Take off at 9.45. Junctions are critical points. Asphalt grafts with condensation. In this darkness I can not see the color, but I know they are light gray. It should be a light gray patina. Lorraine pushes the car and when we pass over the spacers, tires lose traction and we swerve slightly. Nothing dangerous. Only centripetal forces, accelerations that dominate a body, the kinematics of human dissatisfaction. Passing Through. Highway has regular bumps, black arched membranes. The forty-minute journey is about to die. International departures entrance is crawling from the blackland.




Tuesday, September 8, 2015

R61, deposed/1



[...] and there was this man dressed in red branson they called him I think they called him branson or ranson not sure bout that I crossed the sthreet he had this red nose of ribbons thought he was kinda fighter then that night there was the shooting at the silver bar I was crossing that sthreet and the party started: heavy load on me buddies that period was surely high lemmie tell ya you can never be so sure are your eyes able to see that night I saw a double murder on R-61 aside the main sthreet in the heart of the state black mamba snakes gators football matches on tvs beers gallons of whiskey the life on the fuckin missie the water queen of this universe ehy I tell ya what I tell you I’m tired retired every little drop that can rest can remains in this world of centuries all this affair this human existence this human consequence the man in red was called RED funny but he was scarlet I didn’t pretend an equal life low life I do not ever understand all of you words we’re all surrounded by words words and people and now tell me in what do you believe religion wives whores a fuckin black hole what do ya believe all this stuff maybe she was a prost and she was my sis what are gonna do bout it no way man outside fields n nuthin they wash the sthreets they wash the roads highways factories houses farms the whole country and they go on and on and on to make this nation clean and neat [...]

Saturday, July 25, 2015

147,1





sun's gone down in highways junctions bottom, car radio still on to survive to the spring birds migration and human beings that stand with you in a path to follow only after seven in the evening, large elevated sections suspended hundreds of meters above the barren valley due to the spilled and the burnt oil after some leaks, the exterior lights of an abandoned theatre left without electricity by an amount of time with no name and no form - out of the diner, cars with oversized tires welcome to nighthawks and that girl sitting at that white table and holding a sepia tone newspaper, seems to tell everyone I saw the world, looking at page after page till the ads, not the lonely hearts ones, but job offers; she would have wanted to bring a red pen to circle phone numbers but she did not and she won’t do anything of this then she shakes the paper and takes another long sip of coffee and orders a vanilla milkshake. She gazes out the window and sees me walking outside.








Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Three Songs








Vinnie



Ehy vinnie vinnie
How's out there
Ehy vinnie
Definitely Who cares
Little Vinnie
In your pants
Joyceful Vinnie
With her mare
You got a trust that won't last
In season of war it will be rough
Ehy vinnie vinnie
Who can tell
Every holy day
Yo get to the shop
So there's nothing again to drop
Vinnie vinnie

********

Foreign Land


This song began
With a man
Who lost his head
He lived in a foreign land
A foreign land
Without a maid
He knew what was right
But he didn't do it
All the time
In the woods with cherry wine
All the beasts
And walk by
Not even fall with a gun
Hunting victims
For the trials
He returned to swampy islands
To get buried
In his mother backyard
He knew what was right
But he didn't do it
All the time
In the woods with cherry wine
All the beasts
And walk by

*******

This ol town

They arrived
This ol town
They knew
What was all about
They arrived
This ol town
In a car
Dragged down
They arrived that day
Nuthin to say
Sun was low
No story told