lucid raindrops, falling

the last drop falls outside on my roof,
and rolls down, before hitting the ground she glides past my window
boom
splash
times many many
raindrop falling on the ceiling
top
i am on, the last drop falls on me
ceiling fan, i am spinning
cool
i am under pressure so no need to hide your cards,
press the flush button with a straight face,
say it with a raindrop,
falling
many many times down, hitting the ground before she glides past my window
while i am seeing double
two penguins!! where are they from?
dizzy i look for a gum or something fizzy
i see ... TV, (oh no), not that

OFF
ok

[photo used without permission but with CREDIT given to:: Elizabeth Leach Gallery]

lucid hallucinations

idealized planes sink ships
faster than dreams remove seat belts
i melt
when words perform
and form blends into sending trends
to the back end
of the isle
i try
to find fire in freezers
to break diamonds with tweezers
i try to seize the dairy to put under a cherry
cold, frozen
in time and chosen to rewind back to the
age of riddles
when in the middle of my story
we said sorry and put sunoco back into the soil,
it was a natural foil to forfeit expectations
that molded holes on oil fields
we all know the outcome:
seconds after the second ending
a foreign man foretold that
barcelona's oldest temple is entering
its final stage of assembly
marble palm trees and waterfalls
in the halls of antonio gaudi's home
will join emblems and attempt to replace
the present with paper mache
i say
catch
and shoot
and then drive by away
play with fireworks on your way
like you dreamt about back in the day
i say
try to outlast a battery
for a day
use caution and avoid sinking faster
in idealized dreams that seat a theater
of removed belts
i melt
when fenders get unbent
when zidane gets unsent
and france still loses on PKs.

poof (another apocalypse)

poof

there goes Wall St, blown up and dismembered by investment bank pranksters with a taste for disaster
the economy crash could not have come faster
but hey, at least it makes for compelling TV
oh Shit!!
there goes GE! there goes Lehman and AIG!
they're crashing so hard I can't see past the red
my portfolio bled its value like the banks bled the Fed
I'm in despair,
someone needs to help me forget that my retirement's gone and I'm swallowed by debt

poof

there goes my home, my job, my American dream,
my pride, my wealth, I want to scream
when will it end?
will the market recover?
five years from now will there be another ... apocalypse?

poof

it's all burn burn burning down
forget wall street and main street, the flames are blazing through the whole town
bailouts are failing, bankruptcy looming
anti-depressant sales must be booming
recession
depression
it's the end of the world
these Wall St disasters never get old.