| you and i music birds trees sky ants on the ground flowers in the dirt with maybe cool worms a schoolhouse with a bell oldhouse with a bed it was abraham lincolns sons bed um it kindof looked like an abicus but we saw it the kids name was tad like tadpole honest abe liked amphibians i like telling you things that only the superintendent of a school would know like were the golfcarts retire and theres a hidden fishtank in the library connected to the teachers lounge were the scantrons live in microwave popcorn um donut coffee mildew smell i know that when spacemen/and women sleep they sleep standing up and since there head cant rest on a pillow they have an elastic cushioned band to keep there head from floating off i thought you might dig that i saw this show the otherday about spacetravel to mars there was awesomefootage of baby birds taken in space they were inside the cabin trying to fly in weightlessness confused i like when you tell me stories about snow and fireworks and bunnybread about icecream you made how you wraped presents with pants and candy wrapers once how sun ra liked space it made my day when you said you saw mr.hoffman eating breakfast at the mcdonalds in the mall at 9:00 and you said the mall on sundays opens at nine but the stores dont open until later so everything is empty and that is where the old wise folk go to walk mr hoffman he is a substitute makes noises maybe breathes loud sometimes snorts but he is a super hero in discuise i know it i asked him once if he went to "nam" but he didnt hear me sometimes i have to stand on my toes to kiss you but that is all one time i stood on a curb and we were kindof even the onething i knew i would never write about was love bbecause i waas scared its strange that i never get tired of you maybe you get tired of me o gosh this is a long poem but everything in my brain that stays there all day and all week i say i love you too and this is why its weird maybe its lame i dont know i havent corrected this one million times and written you a book of all the variations yet heh heh all the things i live for people take for granted its a beautiful world and a ugly one some things dont cost money everything is fascinating to me a reason for everything and a reason to be fascinated of everything without a reason |