these are true stories

jalopy dreams · these are true stories

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 (heads up! listen to the poem up here)

warning! these true stories are based on loose lips, unshaved characters

scripture translated from crop circles, fast food menus

and all the stuff stuck to the bottom of my shoe

 

true story every time i buy new shoes i have to learn to walk again

giggle and gimbal, stumble over curbs, each foot a conjoined stranger

the fun never ends

until it ends

flatfooted again

 

true story i have no use for politicians, but that’s not true

            sometimes i run out of toilet paper

true story i’m not running for mayor of truthtown, i’m not managing

a health food store, i don’t sleep inside a fortune cookie

            true story i see two moons tonight

one in the sky and one in the lake

 and drunk enough to swim for it

 

true story a man and a woman holding hands in a deli

                        pretending they’re not going to devour each other

true story i wrote a dozen emails, all in my head, which has no wi-fi

so you probably didn’t get them

true story i took the last trash bag from the box, and put the box in the bag

true story i only sleep in pictures of beds

 

final warning

all these warnings may be hazardous to the osmosis of spontaneous true story

true story, all these warnings were translated from chinese toaster oven safety labels  

with an industry standard garage sale ouija board

            (caution plug securely or power cord be detached in set

            else crisscross wires fix with fork and feel emergency

call god immediately, also, avoid soft drinks)

 

but let us not be warned

let immortal monkey gods deliver us onto random doorsteps

let us midnight snack a greasy half-burnt sunset last supper of summer

let us creature around in secret vehicles under a suicide of blue sky

let us go all weather, all together

and forget to do our laundry

 

 

2013

posted for open mic night at D'verse