[three brief pieces]

REMAKE (TURN, TURN, TURN)

They're gonna rewrite Qoheleth
they're gonna take out all that shit about
Gathering stones together &
Weeping &
Laughing &
Embracing.
It's gonna be all about
the Rotten Time.
They're rewriting Qoheleth and
they're gonna make a movie out of it.
It's official.

I read it in the trades.


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HELPLESSNESSNESSNESS

Fire is helpless.
It may be important to remind yourself
of that from time to time
maybe mainl when the Bad Cells crawl
and assassinate their way
through the unlit corridors of Something you Love.
maybe when it burns.

Fire is helpless, cannot help itself
cannot cease or direct or argue
can never find the discipline, the courage
to make up
or change
its Simple Mind,
does what it does by foreign will.

Rock cannot defend itself against Water
or Whatever.
Sharks die if they stop swimming.
The Sun has no Tae Kwon Do skills.

Even Oxygen, immutable & powerful Oxygen, has no way
to decide where it goes
or what it does.


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BAD SEX, WORSE JOKE

I asked him what sex with her was like
and he said something about
getting in a helicopter
and dropping a toothpick
into the Grand Canyon

at which point i meant
to say that i didn't know who
he was trying to insult there

but he had somewhere to be
and i guess it really wasn't
an important thing to address

because the he answered my question:

The Sex between them was Bad.


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so these are all pretty old, and pretty short. thought it was time to post something again.

-andy