RSVP

there is nothing to fight.
the air is all around us.
one presses 
against the other

this is so this is so that breathing this is number one what counts breathing is this is so counting one number at a time so this is 
breathing so time, so time is counting—		one 
						never looks down never looks 
						looks down only when told	
						not to


with practice, silence suffers no embarrassment
all algebra	condensed
unflinching.

how to live 
'between the lines'
all implications...

nothing so old as an old god.

linear reasoning
rain  
behind enclosure
clearing in dense woods
room bounded by four walls
water striking 
wood 	
sounds accumulated velocities 
of distance 
gentle 	syncopation
window covered over
with curtains
the sill where one plants flowers
difference between evening and night
and sundays it is arriving
then it has arrived and it is there
a door 		closed	
a closed door

notion of progress 
stable elements unstable
'intention realized by stages'

perfection of timing
sudden shift in mood
finite without measure
 
jealously revealed 
afraid to be governed 
secret rhythm 
spread across intervals of breath.

time
waiting 
long waiting  
something
a pattern  
derives general principals from which the next 
in sequence 
can be predicted.

nothing out of place or time
one may read it in the papers, but nothing repeats
no more than what has been and under no circumstances to be mistaken for silence

ink is red or black
one searches for excuses
makes the simplest communications
cryptic		speaks only to strangers

feels awkward 'saving' a place in line

a place set for you at the table a bit of card with your name printed in neat block letters
snapshot one in a sequence interlocking arrangements
removal of pieces
to see the form beneath the thing
thing beneath the form

how a cave is like an island 

seamless of alternatives all bitten stung by whispers someone understands how to be patient the periphery is appreciating the 
approach horn's wail steep against the light and mad so mad this thousand of eyes attention falters precarious solid state hum 
studied oscillation 

precisely how one can fail in trust tells lies smiles too easily smiles and sniffs the air and smiles smells fear preys on it on fear how 
one smells it so easily and falls upon it on fear and smiles and sees the smiles the others there is nothing to trust knows it knows 
fear knows it when one smells it and everywhere it is there and here and how it smells so near and no nothing here only the air how 
one sniffs it	smiles

breach of protocol
a moment
infinity if one counts slowly but something stops
something halts
wrench in gears
the mechanism is broken 
the organism	ill

this the germ the air 
malleable stuff out of which
breathing condenses expires

if it's not about you
it's about someone else

certain bumper sticker manipulations perspectives unfold furious angel impulses sharp like blinking won't do it won't see how it is 
done only the simplest notation	nuance is everything

just so hello so reading just as writing hello and learning and a question and a name and a question and again and a day after which a 
day the day on which one entering yes entering entranced to see just so like this again hello hello and so over and this over again it 
burns one side and then the other and what was it like ink indelible washing washing again still spreads the germ by contact 
intercourse tattooed nation just like that it grows epidemic look look look see what made you look and too late and where why and 
always one immaculate unscarred certainly just like that outside always the way it floats over ears and never will they all trust it too 
unreal to swell wavelike peril amusement park like frying ants magnifying lens and it's my turn just so waited like the rest now my 
turn my turn hello