But what is unsaid

Getting’ a little bit more absentminded by the minute
I can’t tell if it is fear or call
It is said that I make a better lover
Then husband or wife
But want would I know of Love.
Love, what is that? I have never stepped
Off of this pier
“I could step
Off of this pier but---
I have shit to do
And an appointment on Tuesday”

I didn’t go to the gym today
I sat on my ass and wrote
A grand final.
Today I brought together the abstract
Inkblots
Into linear, dimensional
Ba ba black
Andwhitelikeme
Salt and pepper.
Today I told you I would bare you a child
If
I could leave it to your care

We both know it would not work for
that is what we believe
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Yet I crush you and like you
Find intimacy in you
It is a two for one deal and I need to settle down before you run away
But know, no, know
it is okay, for I am not asking anything of you except for a distant
Amity
Because if you came near or outright expressed similarly I would be tracing my
Backwards steps
Fucked up? Or does it suit us? Maybe, it is a a a a ah aa all relative.

Maggie, Maggie
“I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s brother no more.
No, I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s pa no more.”
There is a broom above my window
And I am about to come clean off your head
She is blond and gorgeous and sick of all the men wanting brunettes
She is ready to dye her hair brown
To which I wholeheartedly dismiss, “No!
You come here and be the sun which shines
And I will be the Moon! Agree!? Agreed.”
You love me and want to know the nooks of my life
Which I honor in the final seconds of our conversation
“I have a crush on a girl.”
Off to Coasta Rica you are, next month Mexico
February Nepal
March Portland?
Do I need to remind you of the $10,000 bonus
Mind you it is taxed
But count me part of the package
My friend
I know there are days when we know strangers
Better then our friends
But I like tulips
And I will give you roses
My friend
And I will know you better then strangers
And you will know me
Besides, there is a wall across from my house
That needs graffiti’d
Lets boycott Wal-Mart
Where do we get the tools
To paint alternative ways of life
I don’t know but
“La Otra Campana
Camina Sin Mana”
Asking we walk
Zapatisa!

Why do you get on your toes when you do the dishes,
Mess around your sink?
Are you strengthening your calves
Or does it have to do with a wish
Wishin’ you were
“…a little bit talla’
wish you were a baller
wish you had a hat
And a bat…”
Know, no, know
that I like to be your reach
But am also cool if you need to get a stool of
Self-determination and self-governance
For I do the same
I do the same

“do you want to go get high
the Mercury is parked outside”

As a poet, self identified or not
Do you share freshly written
Poetry or do you generally
Sit on it until it is mere fact
not
Raw and unprocessed?
I wait.
For months
Until I am able to disassociate and speak of it
As distant past of which I have learned
Loved
Experienced
No longer
Here
now
Me
Today
Though if you take it in the way I intent to deliver it
There is nothing to fear because I mean nothing different then
What I have ventured
Like we have agreed upon before
Honesty is hot
I believe honesty is not only is in what is said
But what is unsaid
So in order to live what I believe
There she is
Nothing more, nothing less