bootleg/ boho baby/ buyin borrowed bounties/ blessing beautiful books with/ scribbles and chants/ unknown to anyone/ but herself
spends days singing/ in closed off cars/ adjoining cracked windows/ make her ashamed/ of her not-quite-a-voice
all kinds of freedom are/ just out of her price range/ but things are slowly/ moving her way
(c) 2009 l.a.m.
9.14.2003
9.04.2003
dichotomy
this may
come as
a shock
but
not everything
i do
is holistic
or even
whole
(you can
close your mouth
now)
sometimes my soul is more
steel-colored glass
than
stony marbled pillars
that delude untrained eyes
into perceptions of
infallibility
however
i am not
always
anything
i can
pollute and cleanse
equally well...
earth mother
one day
hard living whore
the next
...my dreams
speak to me
in both voices.
i know
many faces.
consistently
two steps from divinity
and carnality
i play
with poison
to test my limits
acquainted with healing wounds
and the wounded route
to healing
i know
the two sides
of every story
including
my own
and
occasionally
(to avoid eardrum hemorrages
from hearing god too clearly)
i self medicate
this
is my night off
from purpose
and reason
slave labor
already got my
back achin
so damn
workin for the universe
it can have me back
when i dream.
di·chot·o·my
n. pl. di·chot·o·mies
1. Division into two usually contradictory parts or opinions: “the dichotomy of the one and the many” (Louis Auchincloss).
2. Astronomy. The phase of the moon, Mercury, or Venus when half of the disk is illuminated.
3. Botany. Branching characterized by successive forking into two approximately equal divisions.
(c)2009 l.a.m.
come as
a shock
but
not everything
i do
is holistic
or even
whole
(you can
close your mouth
now)
sometimes my soul is more
steel-colored glass
than
stony marbled pillars
that delude untrained eyes
into perceptions of
infallibility
however
i am not
always
anything
i can
pollute and cleanse
equally well...
earth mother
one day
hard living whore
the next
...my dreams
speak to me
in both voices.
i know
many faces.
consistently
two steps from divinity
and carnality
i play
with poison
to test my limits
acquainted with healing wounds
and the wounded route
to healing
i know
the two sides
of every story
including
my own
and
occasionally
(to avoid eardrum hemorrages
from hearing god too clearly)
i self medicate
this
is my night off
from purpose
and reason
slave labor
already got my
back achin
so damn
workin for the universe
it can have me back
when i dream.
di·chot·o·my
n. pl. di·chot·o·mies
1. Division into two usually contradictory parts or opinions: “the dichotomy of the one and the many” (Louis Auchincloss).
2. Astronomy. The phase of the moon, Mercury, or Venus when half of the disk is illuminated.
3. Botany. Branching characterized by successive forking into two approximately equal divisions.
(c)2009 l.a.m.
8.21.2003
sometimes...
life really is a bitch...
a skinny one
with long blonde hair
walking like she's
got a stick up her ass and
a hanger on her back
that cuts neatly
into her shoulder blades
she has a permanent wince
but she'll blow sand
in your eyes
so maybe you'll mistake it
for a smile
she knows
she's everything
and nothing
...and that her looks
can't save her
the trick is
to pull her red carpet
out from under her
snatch it.
laugh as she falls.
leave her
and her yellow hair
crying on the sidewalk.
call her
what she is
and walk on.
let some fool
who doesn't know any better
help her up.
(c) 2009 l.a.m.
a skinny one
with long blonde hair
walking like she's
got a stick up her ass and
a hanger on her back
that cuts neatly
into her shoulder blades
she has a permanent wince
but she'll blow sand
in your eyes
so maybe you'll mistake it
for a smile
she knows
she's everything
and nothing
...and that her looks
can't save her
the trick is
to pull her red carpet
out from under her
snatch it.
laugh as she falls.
leave her
and her yellow hair
crying on the sidewalk.
call her
what she is
and walk on.
let some fool
who doesn't know any better
help her up.
(c) 2009 l.a.m.
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