Two children scratched

      promises in

Chalk on the sidewalk

      Their hopscotch ritual

Interrupted by some drunken

Suburban mother

Hosing the ground

Drowning away promises

The two cried over

their watered down friendship

As time

flowed by

I sang along

With the ravens

As I ran down the slops

      of a smoky dawn

Sliding down the edge

      of the clouds

I wish somebody'd

Turn off gravity

And just set us all

Free.

Abstract

      voices

Lock away lonely

      pebbles under

a pool of corpses

Broken shells

      too many to

count

I stroll under the

      black moonlit

clouds

Nothing but older

Viejo perdedor

Buceaba entre la noche

Con una banda

sobre sus ojos

El tiempo se escurría profundamente

Profundamente se escurría el tiempo

más allá de su lógica

Él no se caía _____ (?el amor?)

Y no había aqua

Sólo cuellos rotos.

Cacophony of a heart breaking

What a hollow sound

Scrapping scaring the

Scarlet heart with a

dull dull army of knives

Low Low battalions of  words

Spoken only to hurt—

Quietly now

Softly Gently

Embrace the pain.