"the hunger to paint" (Yellow Submarine)

1.
Glass kerygma
having passed
into notoriety
--flower
power--:
but when will again come
music
if we think this is music

2.
Within myself to fadge a fierce survivor
Veeder-Root warning, zugzwang,
shinju in the City of Yes and No.


    "Cord Phone with a Dial"

Departed like the ice
vanished with the snow

our frothy sacrifice
departed like the ice

and we don't look back twice
but faster bid it go

departed like the ice
vanished with the snow


    "Five Hours' Sleep"

silent like the sky
silent as the grave
seasons i'd defy
silent like the sky

never asking why
song pervades a cave
silent like the sky
silent as the grave


    "snapping"

parch
scrutiny

glistening
on the dull tarmac

a streetlight
goes out

cop car watches
me like a hawk

poet's lunar shadow
advances up the broken sidewalk