Someone to Trust

Who is lying
Who is faking
Who is fighting
Who is flaking
Who is trying
To make sentences
From words
They can't even remember
The spelling.

Who is lying
Who is telling
Who is saying
Who is selling
Who is trying
To make rhyme
From words
They don't pronounce
In the ending.

Who is lying
Who is waving
Who is forcing
Who is paving
Who is trying
To make songs
From letters
Of an alphabet
That doesn't exist.

It never happened you say.
What if they prove
I have validation.
You pay.
Knowing what you did.
Fighting in your head
Lying to your mind
You go crazy
Knowing you have shadows
Following your shoulder.
Knock you over like a boulder
Those thoughts of yours.

You should have just said sorry.
Sorry what you did.

But you want the slow road to personal hell.
Because there's no one you can tell.

Some to be All

The like to be warm
The want to be away
The thought to sleep
The need to dream.

Water in a tea cup
Roses in a well
Thorns snapped off a stem
Books you couldn't sell.

Any day now
I could be free
Available and laissez faire
Do anything I dare.

That end is nigh
Then time will fly
The day has sunrise started.


P.S.
It's not you gone
It's not me finished
It's you out of mind
And me just beginning.

Yes?

If you want me
Take me out
Just dance
Don't scream and shout
At the waiter
With his eyes
On me.

Hold my waist
And then
Twist me 'bout
Again
Don't waste our night
On playing games.

Hiljaa

Just because I talk
It doesn't mean I communicate.
All the words are jargon
To my own lexicon
And a fabrication
Less to my imagination than of it.

Brains are a funny thing
When they don't work
You can understand more
When they are too fast
You have to blink so much
To take make believe photos
Of things you don't need to see.

Quiet, now
Now I can hear you.

Pop, Prego

It might take
Two hands to move a mountain.

It may take
Two years to sail this ship,
Across a water.

The tides cease
At the shoreline.
But I won't seize
Day past time.

See you
Seeing me
Across a water.

1989

Joulukuu

Lead on Jet Lag

Not behind
In front.

Not beside
Or next to.

Steps on two
Are waiting for
The world to catch.

Up on top
Below the cloud.

Waking before the sun.

Tourism Boards

Miss
A man
He points
To you like this
Through the window

He watches you
You know him?

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