(calligrapher's want)

Clandestine handshakes.
Covert touch on cobblestones.
Dark, secret groping.

(and isn't it so age-old that it almost makes you puke)

I want to; I want--
But of course I cannot make
Manifest: write great.

(Musical Mash-ups VII (I haven't seen in several years))*

Hours perched in the dark.
Waiting for the skies to clear.
Flowers in the park.



*thanks again, Cotton Jones Basket Ride

(who the fuck comes to a water park at 9am on a sunday)

Lifeguards could die here.
I save myself by counting,
backwards alphabets.

(once a young married couple built a play structure for their children. they all grew older.)

Threadbare yellow slide. 
Lichen gobbles wooden ramps.
Quiet. Still standing.

(i do not want to be happy all of the time)

i do not want to
be happy all of the time.
it's enough to be.

(the janitor, the doctor, and me)

Everyone's scared.
What the hell do I hope for?
That you think good thoughts.

(it pays to pay attention during grammar class)

Fully, Will, I ran.
Will Fully ran? I wonder. 
I ran, willfully.

(i can no longer remember the shape of your biceps)

So little is left.
Maybe, your knees. You were smart.
Blue swim trunks in June.

(follow through)

Start me up, start start
me up i'm ending.

(thus far it has covered all of the roots)

From the ground, upward.
Ivy doggedly growing.
Trees slow-motion drown.

(soidisant)

Captive(ate) by(i-) lines
Do you appro- (dis)appear
I aim to kill (please)

(Musical Mash-ups V (our fearless crew was not prepared))*

Keep it together.
Can we keep us together?
Sing a new song, now.


*with thanks and attributions owed to Guster

(Musical Mash-ups IV (i like you mostly late at night))*

hold tight hold tight hold--
slide it back you can be me
raining in my room




*thanks again, Life Without Buildings