To Texas Tomorrow

Wear horns always,
      even if you hide them

     and celebrate the
loves that love the desert night

    which is always colder
than expected

We want relief, and we
     will take it

We will take it to the party
     and share it

At least when we fall,
we will have company
         down there

The Wrong Turn of Texas

Heads together smash all brain please learn more than

just one body

You won't know we are looking at you

You won't want to

The morning light is bright

orange so you can hide in it's fruit

The night is alive and it is spitting us

back into the morning

Make a cave of this place

Never show your face unless you mean it

The hookers didn't want us Our legs

gave out and we were

broken

The Gut Racket

Gut racket in spades

Hear my shrieks and hear

My silences

Admit ill-defined

Stop this gesticulate

My countrymen

Blow fish Sunday

Light up hung up

My cave paint

Fleece covered feeling

Won't stay soft

My curses

What We All Have

I have a body that belongs to no one.  I go underwater to escape it.
I have a second head.  I'm putting it up for grabs.
Underwater, we all feel the same sensations, free from weight
and legs.  I am offering these legs to the sharks.  I am offering my soul
to the sea monsters.  More than anything, I want to be
an octopus.  I want to surround myself
with myself.

Oh, No, I Couldn't Possibly

          Come. Let us find another way

          to say              No way:

I think not. I don't want to. I know that I want to say No.

I will never. We will never. Not a good thing for me to do.

Let's not. Absolutely not. I will not. We will not.

Hell, no. Not that.
Shake the head somberly with a steady gaze.

         (The importance of knowing what you don't want cannot be overstated, ever)

Which West Was Won

One body

offered to the sea

            who said, “What?

What do you want with me?”

Face was a beard

to hide our glee, but sea

           said, “We are he!

All are we!”

The Ears

I can hear your ears. Frogs and birds can

hear your ears. Oh, unwanted sound.

                       Root-mean-square sound.

                       Left-hand-illusion sound.

The mute consonants represent the earth.

The vowels heaven.

        I can take the whole song.