she sat there like a photographof someone much further awaywe shared a brief bus stopon one of those inbetween daysshe gave me her smileand I looked underneathat the lipstick on her teeth she asked me for a lightand if I thought her hair looked okaywe grew out of the small talkinto stuff strangers just don’t […]

tending the garden of noisewhen I grow the trafficand the churchbellsand the neighborhood boyssinging to myselfas the solitude sets inin tune with the symphonyof south brooklynI sing rockabye, rockabye babyrockabye, the baby that is merockabye, rockabye babyrockabye til I’m fast asleep the tunnel is train tornthe tracks are worn and soreI can feel the rattleriding […]

you are subtle as a window panestanding in my viewbut I will wait for it to rainso that I can see youyou call me up at nightwhen there’s no light passing throughand you think that I don’t understandbut I do we don’t say everything that we couldso that we can say lateroh, you misunderstoodI hold […]

deathhas been your loverhe has brought youthe edges of your lifeand now you are looking overand all we can say isit’s gonna be all rightand I am looking forwardto looking back on these dayswhen on every cornersomeone holds a signthat says I’m homelessI’m hungry andI have AIDS how will they define our generationin the coming […]

she says forget what you have to dopretend there is nothingoutside this roomand like an idea she came to mebut she came too lateor maybe too soonI said please try not to love meclose your eyes, I’m turning on the lightyou know I have no vacancyand it’s awfully cold outside tonight the rain stains the […]

In a forest of stoneunderneath the corporate canopywhere the sunrarelyfiltersdownthe groundis not so softnot so soft they build buildings to house peoplemaking moneyor they build buildings to make moneyoff of housing peopleit’s truelike a lot of things are trueI am foraging for a phone booth on the forest floorthat is not so softI look upit […]

thank youfor letting me stay herethank you for taking me inthank youfor the beer and the foodthank youfor loaning me bus farethank you for showing me aroundthat was a very kind thing to dothank youfor the use of the clean towelthank you for half of your bedwe can sleep here like brother and sister,you said […]

she was shaking and talkinglouder and loudereach sentence was siftedto a very fine powderher face was wet and tighther grip was cold and lighta strong wind could blow you downI heard myself sayword up sistera strong windcould take me away I said how long haveyou been at largethey told me you were stashedlast time I […]