this_town
scattered blue leaves that i am driving through
is not your_town.
it looks like it, though, with its perfect garbage
and upside down houses.

and with everybody wondering which turn to take
to get to that little sparkly pond
over there,
just right over there.

if it's over there,
it must be somewhere -
hell, it could be anywhere, they guess
but they never get on
because they only walk in circles
the same circles
everyday
so things just go on
and on
in the same cyclical mess
with the same people
all the time.

so this space
this wildly fucked up place
doesn't ever fill
with anybody new.
.
.
.
"this town is crazy; nobody_cares" -beck
.
.
.
and it's piled to the sky with newspapers that the people won't ever read because
they're either busy
exhausted
or in denial.

it so seems
that this town
once belonged to you.
021117
...
scattered blue leaves and at dawn the townspeople go to the football field
looking for answers
while they gaze
supergaze
at the sun
waiting for it to say
"breathe me in"

and when it doesn't,
they cry
and swear that their lovers will provide instead
not realizing at the time
that their souls will get cracked in half
as soon as they fall back.
021117
...
blatherite my_town
my street
gives me peace of mind that can't be beat.
021117
...
silentbob buck o nine 021118
what's it to you?
who go
blather
from