January 2022 - Page 3 of 3

Water 💦 Slicer Song

Posted on January 17, 2022January 18, 2022 by Wolfgang2022

i deserve neither birth nor childhood, in fact 
anne frank would've donated all her diary
entries to have had half of my mornings.

i expel half-life thoughts and halfway days,
no more pitifully selfish fission reactions, rather
share with me your gloriously expressive fusion.

my breath resists calculators and spreadsheets
no division signs can sever drops of water from
each other, nor can coins extinguish fountains

i cherish here and now unapologetically. 
i too have the best of time and space, soaking in magnitude like a max richter scale, 
ever racing and daring like a whizzing kite.

Rejection Letter Lay-Up

Posted on January 17, 2022January 17, 2022 by Wolfgang2022

Its thrilling to fail in public
if you can pivot your sense of self.

I like to pick up the ball
that writer's block deflected,
that the reader's rim rejected,
and dribble it like saliva
squeezed under a starving cheek,

then pump fake it
like a shift button
on a Windows 10 keyboard
shifting back and forth
until the scoreboard beeps.

Amateur?!

Posted on January 17, 2022January 17, 2022 by Wolfgang2022

Can one even sing a new song?
Easy data access yet so hard to express
anything distinctive that's also honest.
I matter or I don't, which is correct?

Maybe I am an atom, whose mass is 
too small to exert any pull. 
No matter, I will compose to shower 
light, dainty static sparks that could 
outlive dark, weighty clotheslines.

My daydream is to become lost in translation.
That terrain of ecstasy where meaning meanders from felt sensation to pixels and pencil dust.

Euphemisms are Roundabouts

Posted on January 17, 2022January 17, 2022 by Wolfgang2022

Honesty is hula-hooping while
being barefooted on a cold lawn;
Stretching truth is easier than shaking your hips to match the spinning top tempo of the world.

Lying is like blushing at a laundromat.
It starts as a knee-jerk reaction to stress, then becomes a long-legged agent that discolours many cycles of fabrication.

Directness is knowing how to dodge
red herrings and when to ram the point.

Sockprint

Posted on January 17, 2022January 17, 2022 by Wolfgang2022

How oily are your pores currently?
Borrowing your sweat, I wear holes
in your shoes, like a stone
that skipped school, ready to impress
my voice onto your toes.