Please Rise

Please Rise

between watchful 

eyes of a nation

during prototype 

demonstrations 

before  

combination

exhumation

convocations

opportunity 

presents itself 

without much 

of a precedent

sliver of an 

accident 

could bring down 

all the plans 

please rise while skies are raining fear

please rise ask what you’re doing here

inside before they turn gears

still time I’ve unplugged the monitors

during the confusion 

inside the darkness

with fingers of fate 

stuck inside holy pockets 

time telescopes

physics, suspended 

adrenaline pumps

minds connected

while they erect the palace

before they’re established

as stars type out 

their last desperate message

Thursdayness

Thursdayness

everyone today
is angry and stoned

we're in this
sandwiched reality

where we can see
the abyss when we want

and chose to look
the other way

my students are
carnivorous

and all out of
shits and fucks

for America
twenty-one seven

adults on the street
feel homeless

although
their circumstances

improve
when the sunshine

shows
itself

woven

woven

show me the fabric

tell me you like it

let me in

on your little secret

we can make it

without equipment

it just takes effort 

and concentration

tell me it's useful

show me it's durable 

wearable most of all

it feels beautiful

with a delicate side

that easily tears

takes some mending

and some care

we bend don't break 

feeling it's a mistake

take a step back 

see what we've made

patterns to remember 

we're woven together

tangled in colors 

strange and familiar 

Details

details

fingers walk hours

round your back

looking for a 

spot to relax

thirsty they dive 

for the watering hole

what a surprise 

when a camel follows

looking for details

admiring details

 

can you spot the details

god's in the details

looking over images 

on your phone

hundreds of minutes

have lost control

hints of weakness

is what you're about

a captured moment's

all you want

with details

every sound, every smell

details

they're all you remember 

details 

we'll scratch initials

with details

onto marble