when the scent's not in the wind---
love all the world
endow your hospitals
and universities
embrace the poor
the body's law
is inescapable
translating through the loins
the limbs
the brain
go hide yourself
in deepest polar waste
yet it will pick-ax
through the molten ice
and find
something to kill
has a particular hour
like a six a.m. ferry
an afternoon therapy session
or a Saturday night film
no sequel
or epilogue
that which remains
eyes blank as slate boards in abandoned schools
cold lips, stone hands
red strung down the embalmer's drains
I do not fear to plunge back in the stream
finish my foolish love affair with rhyme
but gazing westward to uncanny lands
of lovers and immortals glimpsed in dream
stride onward toward the inky edge of time
scintillant wine
brewed in the balls
sluiced into the blood
for sinew, bone
and the imperious cock
and yet the liquor that gives strength
also feeds death
when death is due
the very source of life
rushes it through
I've scooped out the flesh of the world
scraped it like the inside of a gourd
till it's empty as a stretched balloon
or a soap bubble
a thin skin over nothingness
a shimmering zero
Old broken down lover
how come you alone tonight?
Old broken down lover
how come you alone tonight?
You had the best woman in the world
but you did not treat her right.
Old broken down lover
the moon ain't shine for you.
Old broken down lover
the moon ain't shine for you.
Your baby left so now what will you do?
Old broken down lover
the stars is out tonight.
Old broken down lover
the moon it shine so bright.
Shine for young lovers
in each others arms tonight.
your worst nightmare
will hit with the sudden
dazzling clarity
of prairie lightning
a vertical stroke
from lurid cloud
timed
naked
white
vertigo of orbiting the sun
speeding through the galaxy
worlds rising huge above the rim
the stars a stream of lightlines
I drink a slug of water
my fingernails grow
I ride a bicycle
my heart paces its thrum
the liquid pressure in my eyeball holds
I eat a pear
button my shirt
my ears grow hair
my breath, unwilled
blood flows like traffic
red and blue
I feel the speed of rushing through the galaxy
I drink a slug of water
I tremble with the fear that has no name
born in Manhattan
graduated college
began teaching
got married
had kids
got divorced
retired
grew old
grew older
the incandescent moment
ever crashed
by horns and hollers
bedlam trashed
the minefield-maze
the mystery
of what fucked up
our history
we are not buried in time
but by it
professors, pundits, celebs
relegated from burning issues
to memoirs, college texts
clippings, chronicles, photos, obituaries
films where the dead
caper and crack jokes
I've seen generations
in their turn
shocked by the sudden youthful tides
displacing them
watched ideologies
roar in and wash out
eternal recurrence...
can you spell Nietzsche?
at our age
we are dying
and should be dying
this is no longer our age
which we observe
as from a height
not our music
not our words
ever swifter
in a time-lapse film
alone
or talking with a grandchild
of childish things
being too foolish to die
or to live
at our age
we need your help...
MISSING!
please help us...
my family and I are desperately seeking...
we are anxiously awaiting...
MISSING PERSON SEARCH REQUEST!
missing person
missing person
any information...
Krishna V. Moorthy, Fiduciary Trust
was on 83rd floor when we last...
looking for Jerome Lohez...
Have you seen Tyrone May?
last seen on 105th floor...
Giovanna "Gennie" Gambela
CARR FUTURES, Tower #1, Floor 92...
Richard Bosco (pictured in pool with 2 children)
window cleaning, working on 107 floor...
Jayson "Jake" Cayne...
Mr. Yoichi Sugiyama, Fuji Bank, Ltd.
North Tower, floor 101
goes by "Gino" or "Gene"
Ethnicity: Chinese (looks mixed)
worked on 103rd floor...
Katy McGarry Noack
AON Corporation 92nd floor...
Olabisi Layeni Yee...
Rebecca works at Marsh & McLennan...
Herman C. Broghammer, Height 5'10" (crossed out) 5'8"
brown eyes, lots of earrings...
hair black (with grey)
wearing navy blue suit with light blue blouse
gold hoop earrings, gold heart pendant
scar on abdomen
barbell in right ear
Frosted Blonde curly hair
clown tattoo...
upper right thigh---Heart and Rose
mole at jawbone near right ear
beige long skirt suit
Gold Wedding Ring
left index finger does not extend
was clean shaven on September 11, 2001
5 months pregnant
Tattoos: Dolphin on foot
Long stem rose on calf
Eagle with American flag
Black Female, medium complexion...
...wearing an EMS uniform...a brown Filipino rosary...a Swiss Army Watch...
approx. 240 lbs. (shown in picture holding glass of beer)
slim build...gold tooth
Firefighter Badge 12642
has a tan line on his upper right arm from a temporary tribal tattoo
Born 07/15/72
angel wing tattoo on right shoulder
light khaki pants & gray DKNY polo shirt
please call 973-486...............
please call 917-664...............
Si usted a visto...
Please contact:
Sabira
Yassin
Halima
You may contact:
Cousin, Maria Rivera
Grandma, Carmen Soto
Please email us at ejewelry@msn.com
call or pray for him
favor de cummunicar
contact 201-507..............................
Mern,
Watch over us,
Love You,
Sis----Fran
god bless you
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