(red 3)

Always on the precipice
of something deep…

Last night,
you were hovering over me
like a demand
to be received,
a static feed
radioed into the n-degree,
but listened here,
listened me.

We’re always on the verge
of something deep…
like a vine-ripe gem
in the keep.
a masterpiece,
uncomprehending.
a message off the Arecibo
dish, collapsed, but ever sending.

Ohh-sham-jio.
Ohh-sham-jio
hauled away.
Ohh-sham-jio.
Ohh-sham-jio
hauled way.

plunged to the hilt
pressed to the nines
sifting the particle fines
trapped in the sink of my Mponeng tabular mind

Always on the precipice
of something deeper…

Last night,
I was blubbering over you.
Minnesota–
the brutal winter
weather-fend.
pissing in the
metabolic wind
as summers break,
as summers bend.

We’re always on the purge
of something deep
to beat a headlong lunge
at the gunge.
a buried alive
on arrival.
a tippy-toe annihilation
out over your skis
at the ballet recital.

Ohh-sham-jio.
Ohh-sham-jio
hauled way.
Ohh-sham-jio.
Ohh-sham-jio
odd to say.

hack of all trades
master of numb
stuck with God’s damn in my thumb
poking rectangulum
poking the rectangulum

Always on the precipice
of something deep…

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