I want to call a request through heating vents, And hear them answered with a whispered no, To crack the code of muscles slack and......
measure me in metered lines and one decisive stare the time it takes to get from here to there my ribs that show through t-shirts......
So the fields are stubble, the garden is done where the scary scarecrow stands and sees her holding up horizons with her hands. She's so......
Knock so I'll know you're still there, half listening, interpreting the air. Full of failing foreign tongue, my dialect of stammer come undone. I've got......
My city's still breathing (but barely it's true) through buildings gone missing like teeth. The sidewalks are watching me think about you, all sparkled with......
February always finds you folding local papers open to the faces "passed away," to wonder what they're holding in those hands we're never shown. The......
you don't get to be a saint the dead man says you get to warm your hands for a moment you get to catch your......
garage sale. saturday. i need to pay my heart's outstanding bills a cracked up compass and a pocket watch some plastic daffodils the cutlery and......
There's blood in the sink, and he's plunging his wrists in. A hangover halo is washing away. Mechanic-school dropout stares into the mirror, stands up......
Takes a dried up ball-point, lemon juice and water, keeps a diary invisibly, In the kitchen corner of a basement bachelor suite there's a certain......
When the bus-shelter windows and napkin-dispensers surprise with distorted reflections, it's never the someone you're hoping to recognize. When the rent is too high living......
Held like water in you shaking hands are all the small defeats a day demands. 10-6 or 9-5 trying, dying to survive. Never knowing what......
Her body is a difficult sister, and she loves her, and hides her somewhere in herself safe from harm. She's barely coasting into a paycheque,......
Morning bright, rise. Go over your lines. Iron your carefully crafted disguise. We'd all like to sing. It's easy to sigh; to sprinkle a handful......
They're tearing up streets again. They're building a new hotel. The Mayor's out killing kids to keep taxes down, and me and my anger sit......
They called here to tell me that your're finally dying, through a veil of childish cries. Southern Manitoba prairie's pulling at the pant leg of......
I have a headache. I have a sore back. I have a letter I can't send. I have desire, it falters and falls down, it......
Wait until the day says it's closing, and public is put away. Write by the light of a pay phone your list of "I meant......
Had one of those days when you want to try heroin, drunk driving, some form of soft suicide. Sitting in silence and staring at ceilings......
All night restaurant, Norh Kildonan. Luke warm coffee tastes like soap. I trace you outline in spilled sugar, killing time and killing hope. This brand......