Thursday, May 30, 2013

Fuck Your Being Late For School, Stop The Summer

-Tick-

Do You Remember Bernard's Watch
And How It Could Stop Time
Its All I Remember

These No School Nights, We Think About It Way Too Often
Still I'm A Boy In Y-Fronts Being Sent To Bed.
Jesus, Have I Washed The Lipstick Off My Cheek.
I Guess I'll Say I Remember Your Name, Not Her's.

But I Don't Remember, When Was I Last This Awkward.
She's Just Pale Cooked Flesh, I'm A Nose Buried In Her Back.
We Are A Single Kiss So We Could Sleep.

-Tock-

Saying What Is A Night If It Is Not Something. You,
Blonde Demi Moore For More Than A Second, Pulling Curtains
Something About Your 90's Panties In 80's Nurse Pants.

Mornings, You Think About It Way Too Often, Now I Do Too
But Here, A Bird That Is A Broken Lawnmower Starts.
There Is Moving Boxes Of Empty Glass, Place To Place.
Moving Out, In Strange Sun With Two Heavily Pregnant Dogs

Its All I Remember
And How I Couldn't Stop Time
Do You Remember Bernard's Watch?

-I Think About That Way Too Often, Mine Just Ticks Too Loud-

CK

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

My Other Mothers Had Sweaty Hands

My First Mother Had Powder Soft Hands
And That's All The People Will Let Me Remember
There Was More But There's Now More Than Years Between Us

My Last Mother Had Sandpaper Hands
And Clothes That Only Went As Far At 18 Months
So She Stood Rubbing A Baby Bump Into The Top Of My Head

CK

Saturday, May 18, 2013

A Low Anthem

This Hunger Is Passing...
This Death/Love/Life Is Passing...
And Washing Us Anew.

CK

Monday, May 13, 2013

4AM Malteser Run

I Don't Believe In Ghosts
And I Don't Believe In Coincidence
But An Ex-girlfriend Is Lying In The Middle Of The Road

Drunk, Call Up To Me, Singing
'Love Is A Metronome'
And I Will Always Think Of You
Ain't That A Kind Of Childhood
Where You Cry In The Shower,
And Forget To Take Off The Socks

We Wore On The Road Yet
You're Still Making Me Out On The Carpet
Feeding Me Lines That Are Enough For The Both Of Us

With The Paint Between Your Legs
Asking Me To Brace The Sides
As It Hastens The Fall
And I Repeat, Once More
'I'm Crazy About You, Baby'
What Ever That Could Mean

I Don't Believe In Ghosts
And I Don't Believe In Coincidence
But An Ex-girlfriend Found Me Lying In The Middle Of The Road

CK

Friday, May 10, 2013

Camus

There In The Bends And Cracks
Of What You Said
I Pretend To Find Mention Of Me
And Not Of Him

CK

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

A History In Love

'I Want To Be With You
And The Anchorage Your Heart Provides'
And Then My Jaw Divides
Take Your Shoes Off Before You Climb Inside

CK


Friday, May 3, 2013

Call The Midwife/She's Much Older Than Me

You Were Born In The 80's
So A Note Left Me To Sleep
Unkempt And A School Teacher,
Probably

I Dated A Girl With Your Name
And I Am Sure I Told You Too
Misplacing You With My Wallet Is
True

I've Never Been Called Handsome
But You Ask Who Claims To Be
You Are Two Memories Of My Mother,
Probably 

I've Just Remembered Her Face
Saying It's Only A Few Years To You
Some How The Sleep We Shared Was
Untrue 

CK