we spilled wine and danced in shivering wheat fields
grow uncautious my love
grow unafraid my love
grow restless and rest with me my love
here drunk in the fields
drunk on the stars
our feet will turn calloused and black
from the dusty pavement along the long predicate of road
predicting our presence pinnacling into evening oblivion
the tide is higher than raucous rampant unrevealing nakedness
dumb music, singing into junkfires,
and the unparalleled movement of raindrops
faster than the parabolic curve of a cupping hand
and
everything
contained
therein.
i mean
what is the point of dishwashers and buddha statues
and fake flowers and underwear and gas pumps and power lines
toasters cars fences polite smiles ballpoint pens shards of glass
glittering like the atom bomb on blue sunday morning
from red skies draped in velvet
the fire underground grows and threatens to lick at our open wounds
but what is the point of it all if not the everlasting
nonrefundable commodity that nobody trades on wall st. or even vine st.
and i learned the truth clothed in rags and singing always
hallelujah lamb of god the redeemer the murky christ river
where our eyes were blinded by faith
and i grew impatient and turned my soul to the northern sky
the borealis the ancient fire in our expanding societyless soul
gripping always to the answer:
oh i find you in everything!
oh i am in love with you!
oh you exist only in the shiver of the high drone string on basses plucked over & over & over in shotgun joy
oh i have seen you naked bathing by the river and stole your clothes and shouted HOSANNA
running from the moon’s murderous mack knife.
where were you when i tore apart the street?
where were you when i kissed him on the mouth
and played in fantastic cannabis cacouphany catacombs
in the sweating pulsing breasts of night?
did you hear our rainslicked fever dreams,
midfunctioning-nonbrain-beautiful
bop
tip
drop
drip
heave of the evening shudder?
i spit in your face and realize that the am of 3 am can mean one thing and one thing only-
absolute madness.
