When the bus shelter windows and napkin-dispensers surprise with distorted reflections, it's never the someone you're hoping to recognize. When the rent is too high living here between reas...
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1. A New Name for Everything 2. Anchorless They called here to tell me that your're finally dying, through a veil of childish cries. Southern Manitoba prairie's pulling at the pant leg of your bad disguise. So why were you so ancho...3. Aside Measure me in metered lines. And one decisive stare. The time it takes to get from here to there. My ribs that show through t-shirts. And these shoes I got for free. I'm unconsoled. I'm lone...4. Benediction So you don’t get to be a saint. Martyrs never last this long. Guess I'll never be the one. To defeat desire in song. Here's a marker. Here's my naked skin. Our &apo...5. Bigfoot I changed the oils and oiled the squeaks, Patched the holes and fluid leaks, Left dusk beneath a diabetic moon. And way to take the TV crews across the creaking ice. The news is howling to the timber...6. Civil Twilight My confusion-cornered commuters are cursing the cold away. As December tries to dissemble the length of their working day. And they bite their mitts off to show me transfers, deposit change. and I can...7. Confessions Of A Futon-revolutionist Held like water in you shaking hands are all the small defeats a day demands. 10-6 or 9-5 trying, dying to survive. Never knowing what survival means. Leave the apartment to buy alcohol. Hang our dipl...8. Diagnosis I have a headache. I have a sore back. I have a letter I can't send. I have desire, it falters and falls down, it calls you up drunk at three or four a. m. to wonder when. wonderful. All the...9. Elegy For Elsabet So the fields are stubble, the garden is done where the scary scarecrow stands. and sees her holding up horizons with her hands. She's so tired of reading Daddy's lips - -that essay on a fro...10. Elegy For Gump Worsley He looked more like our fathers. Not a goalie, player, athlete period. Smoke, half-ash, stuck in that permanent smirk. Tugging jersey around the beer gut. "I'm strictly a whiskey man"....11. Everything Must Go Garage Sale. Saturday. I need to pay my heart's outstanding bills. A cracked-up compass and a pocket watch, some plastic daffodils, the cutlery and coffee cups I stole from all-night restaurants...12. Exiles Among You Her body is a difficult sister, and she loves her, and hides her somewhere in herself safe from harm. She's barely coasting into a paycheque, stuck on empty. Her blue eyes frozen green in the low...13. Fallow Wait until the day says it's closing, and public is put away. Write by the light of a pay phone your list of "I meant to say". Like "Winter comes too soon", or "Radiato...14. Greatest Hits Collection Knock so I'll know you're still there, half listening, interpreting the air. Full of failing foreign tongue, my dialect of stammer come undone. I've got these threads of you and I tha...15. History To The Defeated There's blood in the sink, and he's plunging his wrists in. A hangover halo is washing away. Mechanic-school dropout stares into the mirror, stands up in his derelict daydreams. Always too t...16. Hospital Vespers Doctors played your dosage like a card trick. Scrabbled down the hallways yelling Yahtzee. I brought books on Hopper, and the Artic, something called "The Politics Of Lonely," a toothbrush...17. Hymn Of The Medical Oddity Oh, all the words I should not know those doctors wrote on me. Swell up and from their syllable won't let me get to sleep. The sun will start later, clock out early. And I'll drive around an...18. Illustrated Bible Stories for Children Morning bright, rise. Go over your lines. Iron your carefully crafted disguise. We'd all like to sing. It's easy to sigh; to sprinkle a handful or plausible lies. Our buildings will ris...19. Leash Had one of those days. When you wanna try heroin, Drunk driving, Some form of soft suicide. Sitting in silence and. Staring at ceilings. Or peeling the paint off. Of things to confide. Maybe someday....20. Left And Leaving My city's still breathing (but barely it's true). through buildings gone missing like teeth. The sidewalks are watching me think about you, all sparkled with broken glass. I'm back with...21. Letter of Resignation Takes a dried up ball-point, lemon juice and water, keeps a diary invisibly, In the kitchen corner of a basement bachelor suite there's a certain search for certainty, you know we'll never s...22. Manifest I want to call a request through heating vents, And hear them answered with a whispered no, To crack the code of muscles slack and tense, Let every second step in boots on snow, Complete you name in a...23. Maryland Bridge I woke you up at four this morning. To whimper and to whine. To hear myself through spit and crackle. Of a poor long distance line. Twelve clever ways to say I love you. With words that always fail. H...24. My Favourite Chords They're tearing up streets again. They're building a new hotel. The Mayor's out killing kids to keep taxes down, and me and my anger sit folding a paper bird, letting the curtains turn...25. Night Windows In the stick-count for the song. of knowing you're gone. glancing up at where you lived. when you lived here. I see you suddenly alive. and nearly smiling. stop and hold my breath. and watch the...26. None of the above All night restaurant, North Kildonan. Luke warm coffee tastes like soap. I. trace your outline in spilled sugar, killing time and killing hope. This brand. new strip mall chews on farmland as we fi...27. One Great City! late afternoon another day is nearly done. a darker grey is breaking through a lighter one. a thousand sharpened elbows in the underground. that hollow hurried sound of feet on polished floor. and in...28. Our Retired Explorer (Dines With Michel Foucault In Paris, 1961) Just one more drink and then I should be on my way home. I'm not enterely sure what your talking about. I've had a really nice time but my dogs need to be fed. I must say that in the right l...29. Pamphleteer I'm standing on this corner. Can't get their attention. Facing rush hour faces turned around. I clutch my stack of paper, press one to a chest, then watch it swoop and stutter to the ground....30. Past Due Febuary always finds you folding. Local papers open to the faces. Who past away to wonder what they'er holding. In those hands were never shown the places. Formal photographs refuse to mention. H...31. Plea From A Cat Named Virtue Why don?t you ever wanna play?. I?m tired of this piece of string. You sleep as much as I do now, and you don?t eat much of anything. I don?t know who you?re talking to, I made a search through every...32. Psalm For The Elks Lodge Last Call Let the waitress put the chairs up, let the glasses that you broke, form a picture of our leader. with a halo made of smoke. Let the golden oldies station. crackle and come through. With a final bened...33. Reconstruction Site Well, I’m lost. I’m afraid. Rope tying down a leaky boat. To the roof of a car on a road in the dark and it’s snowing. If Iâ€...34. Reunion Tour Rolling cables slick with beer. To hang up on the broken stands. The houselights lit our injuries. For crowds with plastic cups that clapped. Beneath our tender sleepy brooms. And boom boom boom boom....35. Slips And Tangles we're rolling neon lights and slinking purple skies squeeze out soft regrets from all our lives as i greet another door that opens in to that place that we repeatedly begin i'm tangled up in...36. Sounds Familiar We emerged from youth all wide-eyed like the rest. Shedding skin faster than skin can grow, and armed with hammers, feathers, blunt knives: words, to meet and to define and to. but you must know the...37. Sun In An Empty Room Now that the furniture's returning to its goodwill home. With dishes and last week's paper. Rumors and elections, Crosswords, our unending wars. The black on our fingers smeared the ink on e...38. The last last one You always stole all my last words. Here's no exception then, one more for me to send. And nothing happens in the end. I'm thinking of you less, more concerned. and more is less, I guess...39. The Prescience of Dawn the sirens woke me up again. i know they're coming for me someday just a matter of when. count to 25 and yawn. touch the clock and turn my back against the dawn. and hope for that one dream of ha...40. The Reasons How I don't know how to sing, I can barely play this thing, But you never seem to mind, And you tell me to fuck off, When I need somebody to, How you make me laugh so hard, How whole years refuse...41. This Is A Fire Door Never Leave Open Headlights race towards the corner of the dining room. Half illuminate a face before they disappear. You breathe in forty years of failing to describe a feeling. I breathe out smoke against the window...42. Time's Arrow So you watch the sunrise sinking, and she's talking in her sleep. A dream of how alone she was tommorrow when you keep all those promises to someone in a mirror you will find at your parents&apo...43. Tournament Of Hearts Now the lounge is full of farmers for the 7:30 draw. Teammates all left before they had to buy a round. When they pull the 50/50 and I've lost again, I'll go. Maybe have one more brown one f...44. Uncorrected Proofs The mirrors and the unacknowledged nods. Dial tones and license plates. The words you didn't choose. Everything the day's too small to hold spills on to the dusk, and shorts the evening&apos...45. Utilities Got this feeling that today doesn't like me. Oh, the air tastes like flowers and paint. There's a sink full of bottles and cutlery. And the car has got a list of complaints. I just wish i we...46. Virtute The Cat Explains Her Departure It had something to do with the rain leeching loamy dirt. And the way the back lane came alive, half moon whispered "go". For a while, I heard you missing steps in the street. And your anger...47. Watermark I count to three and grin. You smile and let me in. We sit and watch the wall you painted purple. Speech will spill on space. Our little cups of grace. But pauses rattle on about the way that you cut...48. Wellington's Wednesdays The night's a spill, a permanent stain; the city soaks in silence, salt and dirty snow. A blue glow from the tv again, the cutains never open, faces never show. And every time a light is turned...49. Without Mythologies A soft breeze with the slippery concrete black and full of muddy slush, contrasting with the hoarfrost, clean and hung on a tunnel of silent shivering trees. (the ones you said you'd like to be),...
