Alex Burford





     dear ham sandwich left in the closet overnight

                             (i hate / love both of you)

                

                 *now unreadable*

                  

                  

        sometimes i am horny for a thousand hours



        Bert and Ernie hanging out for hours, sweating



        and having meatloaf, like a cannonball, again



        the slow sigh of your life leaving your ass



        like tripping onto the train tracks right before



        and the tubes are crossed to look like a heart



        or a more Mary Tyler Moore style cut



        so that was it and plain did a barrel roll of effect



        Mr. Porter drank three gallons of sherry with my



        daughter, flinging tight spirals of color onto the crowd



        like that one time you bought me a comic when i was sick



        or when the whole class found a dinosaur in playground



        like a sandwich that makes you forget the feeling of loss



        or how you fill that space with words, or tired guitar chords



        shaped like like like those flowers or bunnies or people fucking



        tried sherry when i was 12 or 13 now smoke menthol in restrooms



        oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, ohno hohhhohohohoh no no no no no no on



        last episode our hero was swallowed by a whale but now he has fire



        and the tiniest girl in the class loved egg sandwiches, we hated her



        the kid with slow eyebrows kept looking over



        the Komodo Dragon was my favorite animal, could catch a deer



        green grass gives her an itchy back and colored Rx's



        leftovers and empty spots on the shoe rack



        don't worry, i'll get you some new pants, baby



        and the same show on TV for hours hours hours



        does Donna give you that hostile finger thing too



        the terrifying dinosaur was happy to have eaten his first human



        like that first time i split a TV and made nuclear explosion



        maybe that was like the time the world kept saying fire fire fire



        like if you held my hand and moved for it like a tired sloth



        that is probably why dog quit eating and going out to play



        it's that lingering the depression only cavemen with pensions have



        or tired supermarkets going out to bars to "hook up" with "chicks"



        humming old folkies we tried to stop riot fires, but



        someone kept holding a lantern above the fog and in the morning



        most people just smoke cigarettes and give me dirty looks



        like the most important general sitting on a vinyl throne or



        ten really strong babies stacked one on top of the other, flexing



        i'm not political by nature but i really wanted to see that fire



        the one where your girlfriend kept saying she loved a lot of people



        like a rack of dishes or the most common vowels in French



        we thought a lot about how dust looks like little bugs in the right light



        man, i could get lost in that sentence back there



        in the gooey brown muck of the swamp where we saw Artax swallowed whole



        and black holes swallowing stars like skittles or swedish fish



        whole bodies of life being dried out and pressed between diary pages



        bodies of water or the tallest man on earth, each with knives and pistols



        scrambling up earth towards the sun and then remembering the kiss of youth



        with nuclear power the color and texture of mushrooms



        i am afraid of bats, children, medication, cars, roads, werewolves



        exerting so much stress his eyes bubbled and his teeth started floating



        don't interrupt your father while he's cutting the box open



        doesn't it seem fitting that all those metaphors were about fucking



        the man from sweden had a better vocabulary than me



        it was depressing



        it was the best thing that ever happened to me 





	

	

	

	

	

	

	

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