same sun
Pleasureville, Kentucky
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New town
New time
Same sun
– Smith, 8.18.2015
Pleasureville, Kentucky
Pleasureville, Kentucky
Status Report 61
New town
New time
Same sun
– Smith, 8.18.2015
Pleasureville, Kentucky
Status Report 60
Inner wall dark
room dim within
Open window glowing
sycamore tree bathed in setting sun
Wind playing leaves —
soothe to see, see to soothe
– Smith, 8.17.2015
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Craven,
we are what we keep.
– Smith, 8.15.2015
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Crickets and car sounds
tree frogs and tire swish
night leaves in breeze
whisper
tomorrow’s real
and first run showing starts before dawn
– Smith, 8.14.2015
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Sun soft warm
day breezy
stone spreading easy
carry bike from basement
pedal 4 miles to fifty-six cents a book
for 18 books written past 975 years
fifty-six cents a book
fifty-six cents for
The Song Of Roland – 1040 to 1115, Turold
Pudd’nhead Wilson – 1894, Mark Twain
Pygmalion – 1913, Bernard Shaw
Babylon Revisited – 1920-37, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mrs. Dalloway – 1925, Virginia Woolf
Things Fall Apart – 1959, Chinua Achebe
To Kill A Mockingbird – 1960, Harper Lee
Podkayne Of Mars – 1963, Robert A. Heinlein
A Purple Place For Dying – 1964, John D. MacDonald
Darker Than Amber – 1966, John D. MacDonald
One Fearful Yellow Eye – 1966, John D. MacDonald
Forerunner Foray – 1973, Andre Norton
Falconer – 1975, John Cheever
A Feast Of Snakes – 1976, Harry Crews
The Dean’s December – 1982, Saul Bellow
Black Alley – 1996, Mickey Spillane
The Active Side Of Infinity – 1998, Carlos Castaneda
Team Rodent: How Disney Devours The World – 1998, Carl Hiaasen
at Rafeeq’s Guide to Kulchur
$10-bag-o-basement-books-moving-down-the-street sale
because team GTK’s heading six blocks south
to Guide to Kulchur: Books, Art, & News, version 2.0
where I will follow
cuz anyone displaying
The Executioner #45 (1982) next to Jane Eyre (1847)
is my tribe of people.
– Smith, 8.12.2015
lifestack
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You go you go you go you go
you keep on going
living your life
slightly off balance
tilted forward
you keep stepping to stop falling
and you step you step you step you step
until long way tomorrow
is far yesterday
so you go
you keep on going
you go you go you go
you try not to fall.
– Smith, 8.11.2015
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Get up.
Do this.
Check that.
Run round the wheel.
Run round the wheel.
Run round the wheel.
Check that.
Do this.
Sleep.
– Smith, 8.10.2015
sidewalk cave painting
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Crickets and frogs sing their song
outside darkened window,
weave traffic tire hiss
with swish of this
and modal trains far in the night
moaning for softer sidings
down track and back.
There’s magic in rising before the sun,
a taste of space before time tang
to sit and sip and wait for light,
mind reminting maybe.
– Smith, 8.9.2015
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The cat saunters in, sits,
looks at me, meows.
I stand.
She rubs my right ankle
then my left,
after which we slow walk to the kitchen
side by side
so I can touch the dry food in her already full bowl
ten, fifteen times a day
to reassure her.
– Smith, 8.8.2015