Disillusion

Surrounded by ants. The dogs haven't shit. I'm looking around for something beautiful. Not sure if I can see it. But looking around seems good, at least.

Bricks at sunrise

Workmen wake before the sun.  When it rises, they lean into it and wipe their muddy brows.  These endless days (though the days clearly have beginnings--this much the men have seen) turn their forearms to leather, their fingernails caked with crescents of dirt and cement and clay, their boots splattered permanently with the same.  A low grumble, a clatter, a hissing, and the shrill, penetrating, echoing warning sound of machinery going backward as well as toward.  The birds can't compete, they go back to sleep; the morning has been taken by the workmen, it belongs to them.

Subsurface REM cycle

Sleep seeps in like water into the lungs, a weight that sinks a forgotten dreamer to the ocean floor so he may finally rest there, softly, far below the tumult of the air.

Libraries and florescent light spectrums

A wall of books has only so many colors.  You must pull them from the shelves, pitch them to the ground so that they open like oysters, and there reflecting across the words, like pearls, you will see how a ray of light might be torn apart.

Kinds of birds

If moonlight glittering off sea foam is the Atlantic's milky way, and jellyfish the clouds, and pillars of coral skyscrapers reaching up from the softly sifting sands, then fish must be some species of bird not yet cataloged by ornithologists who think, mistakenly, that they are not standing beyond the stars.

Unable to lead the mourners in song

Hey hey, my my. RocknRoll will someday die. Glancing at the preacher, Niel averts his eyes; Hey hey, my my.

Study in Entropy: above, below

If a comet reaches to the sun and expands, melts away, trails, and if ice cubes melt in the summer, pooling the cement, slipping past the roadway shoulders, or first evaporate, then fall in sheets of rain, then slip past, what other parts of us can we expect to melt away in space and seep into the dirty Earth?