SPACED MAN

TEXT: In youth            you painted           something           concrete even tasted like ice cream and then we walked            in and           it tastes like           used side-            walks                      and you just           wish you           could step on           something                                that hasn’t            d          r          ied

Photo taken from my old apartment back in 2005.

TEXT: Some things, you understand will be mis- understood by design; by those who          listen through this                               much air                               between

Photo taken from my old apartment back in 2005.

TEXT: In the nest I used to chirp my heart out — I had no melody —           I knew only the            sky            and the           trees           I knew only how            wild           my heart could           chirp and then I learned I was no song- bird and I let all the other birds down you see we were not made to chirp           for the            sky            and the            trees we were made to chirp for a nest

TEXT: a bomb was my           Mother my                    Father he dropped it on                      babies so that other                      babies could make a bomb for my           Mother my                    Father

TEXT: we           tower            under old found- ation we           dance around brutal- ist deities; erect & undefiled except for men we           tower            under

TEXT: no one listens to            you only to be some one to           you as          us all

TEXT: did you forget your back- turned when the water dries? I was there when it flow- ed you: clay figur- ines delicate by hands the          mon-           soon           so flee-           ting —            rose — but I was           [t]here my hands: delicate pulled you: smiling grace- fully aware                    of                      only sand

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