nothing but seconds

Beached

ACAB: A Nursery Rhyme                                             Sean Bonney

for “I love you” say fuck the police / for

“the fires of heaven” say fuck the police, don’t say

“recruitment” don’t say “trotsky” say fuck the police

for “alarm clock” say fuck the police

                                                    for “my morning commute” for

“electoral system” for “endless solar wind” say fuck the police

don’t say “I have lost understanding of my visions” don’t say

“that much maligned human faculty” don’t say

“suicided by society” say fuck the police / for “the movement

of the heavenly spheres” say fuck the police / for

“the moon’s bright globe” for “the fairy mab” say

fuck the police / don’t say “direct debit” don’t say “join the party”

say “you are sleeping for the boss” and then say fuck the police

don’t say “evening rush-hour” say fuck the police / don’t say

“here are the steps I’ve taken to find work” say fuck the police

don’t say “tall skinny latté” say fuck the police / for

“the earth’s gravitational pull” say fuck the police / for

“make it new” say fuck the police

                                                    all other words are buried there

all other words are spoken there / don’t say “spare change”

say fuck the police / don’t say “happy new year” say fuck the police

perhaps say “rewrite the calendar” but after that, immediately

after that say fuck the police / for “philosopher’s stone” for

“royal wedding” for “the work of transmutation” for “love

of beauty” say fuck the police / don’t say “here is my new poem”

say fuck the police

             say no justice no peace and then say fuck the police

I remember shut up and feel this in my body

I remember niceness is inadequate shame

I remember Justin Trudeau’s hair length in the New York Times.

I remember the 30 hour famine and Tom Cochrane’s Life is a Highway (oh canada)

I remember dirty pain

I remember bacon’s not the only thing that is cured by hanging from a string

I remember brains pulled out through the nose

I remember a wrench in my gut

I remember a heart in a jar

My Twelve Tweets

Seen today on 2 separate lanes, 2 separate men, each on cell phones w/ cat scratch posts, odder now given the maggot scratch post situation

Seen today on the same road,hrs apart; 2 separate men,each old,each with hands behind backs,each cupping in one hand single plucked flowers

Seen today walking side by side 2 tall long haired men in black bellbottoms, w/matching bolero jackets & zorro hats, masks likely in pockets

Seen and heard today 2 tan,muscly men in harnesses going up & down my building grinding off balconies, i have invested in serious headphones

Seen today rain, a rope blowing off the construction swing and the saddest oldest dog being dragged along down the street. no doubling.

Goslings!!

Seen last night at the beach!;same 2tall long haired men in black bellbottoms, w/matching bolero jackets&zorro hats, lying against backpacks

Seen tonight; several bats, a fat seal on a rock& a skunk scurryin thru dark forest path, all to the soundtrack of screeching heron chicks.

Sluggy ride thru the park & over theLionsgate, a big one nearly run over was actually a bird featus. then i did a lopsided dreamy top knot.

An orange moth flew out of my Q-tips box last night

Feeling the need to throw the word caveat around more if I am to be taken seriously.