Pillow Talk

champ city
strung out faces, drunken voices,
tough guys with tamed girls.

lovely city
i want to make you happy,
but we only have broken promises & bruises.

lost city
a sink full of dirty dishes,
we are all lonely, but not alone.

oh champion city
we throw away our empty bottles, our bodies,
but we lose ourselves when we're held first in a lover's eyes.

The Agent

we're always getting better,
blue skies, prairie fields

we're always turning the corner,
better days, stronger nights

and that's what they say,
unfocused stares, burning cigarettes.

the pharmaceutical giants,
they don't care about a cure

they're sleeping with the government,
interested only in treatments.

the map is not the territory,
secret drug lives, secret love lives

i am not interested in your secrets, your treatments,
give me your cure.

A Conspiracy

a conspiracy of whispered confession through bitten lips
collisions of glances and stares from him & you & her & them & me
road maps of crossed heart strings and twisted bed sheets
freckles and beauty marks that fade into the night's stars

we measure life by pints of beer and shots of whiskey
always squinting through glassy eyes to see the sun rise
crawling from a bed, crawling away from another
& where did you come from? & why do you stay with me?

this conspiracy of admittance and dalliance
find each other in: him & you & her & them & me
look for me, a reckless heart with a messy bed
our bodies melting into each other, into the universe

what a conspiracy.