earth rats
foto by smith
not sure anyone’s home inside me today. woke tired. remain tired. perhaps the aliens took us up last night for extended lab rat tests. i’m always extra tired after alien encounters. or maybe it’s the earth rats talking to me during the night. they ask such pointed poignant questions, but their rat bias is so extreme i can’t understand what they want from me.
bad day for me not to be me. from 3 to 5 it’s our last poetry reading at the gallery. from 5 to 8 it’s the closing reception for the Lady K / Mother Dwarf / Smith OFFWORLD assemblage show. then at 8 we go to dinner with our hosts.
tomorrow we spend with Lady’s folks. monday tuesday we pack up and discard, then fly south. 34 degrees here, 81 where we’re going to live. time to leave.
Autumn Leaves
Leave me not in love and truth
Leaves me not at all
Leave my loss its soft misuse
Leaves my foreskin small
Leave my lost belief in youth
Leaves my use in thrall
Leave my use in used abuse
Leaves me moist of all
Steve M, Kim, Lady K in front of smith pieces on wall at closing - foto by smith