april 23, 2001

I find you between
Jazz Styles history text book pages,
all enveloped in
Vanguard music, notes and silence
caught
within your hair

You move through
seasons of wanting only
the sound of a piano
hitting and bouncing off
the small of your back

And then you are lost
in all the beauty that could be
written from the look of your
face on a pier sunset night,
all orange and hopeful
april 27, 2001

I have rusted pots
a bad mouth
a bad mouth
I have your rusted pots
right up to the
window sill

I have no armour for
intensity
your
character floating above
a tired afternoon

And I have a genie
for all the things you'd
wish for
I have a genie,
at least,
to take care of
april 30, 2001

you're on stage
I lie sprawled on the
auditorium floor

and you are beautiful
in your own right
in your own right

even though you are not mine

you have a drive

not even a truck
driver can speed past

and in my own right
i love you
may 1, 2001

is it really
self serve
Bob Walsh?
do you self serve
in life?

do you live for the
clank of coins, of a
gumball machine
right as it spits
out the candy?

hey Bob Walsh
was that you out by
the pump,
swatting a cloud of bees
with your wet, acidic squeegie?

Bob Walsh, you self serve
you serve the coutry
with dignity
and you serve the ditch's
hogs with a gasoline
morning breakfast
may 7, 2001

My dear,
it is how all the other flavours
feel
when you pick the plain
vanilla

It is how this back
bends
and
bends
and fights not to break
under you
under you

The concellation queen
my cheeks never as rosey
as the moment I
found out
how my garden
does not grow

so you know
may, 2001

the coincidence in sitting for a while-
of staring, as senselessness drains from
my pores, you in my eye, in everyone-

and then you there, walking Bloor Street
with a notebook in one hand and your
girl in the other-
the 'all you need'

what a heroe I am
to only myself
H