I Am

WE HAVE BEEN GATHERING













FOREVER






of course of course of course

i DIDN'T KNOW

or notice

self-absorbed one always trying to file away


digest


too much


I

supreme


BOOF

most of my books were read as an escape
from a room of Pain
instead of a searching for a sense of the sacred

blame that mind mess
on a quirk of this american system
where us pube's don't get literary criticism
until college
by then it is all preaching to the choir


No wonder the novelists keep proclaiming themselves dead.


why does this shit happen?
too much critical thinking
for they great they's pets??

doubt they are that smart
but you never know
what they'll say
when they finally come in from the cold


never be no ivory tower
for this indiana boy (I like elephants too much)
I will teach first grade through whatever
attend whatever wounds need healing
so the pipedream plays softly under the r and b


let's get to learning the ones
you've had to give up on
manifest the power of their magic
let them break their own chains
and smile that smile





peacefully the greens






began MARCHING
OVER THEir COMPUTERs

around them their famalies were SAFE and warmed

total war for total peace
WE MUST SOLDIER ON