Slant Invention

you amidst your machines gone / mad and dreamy / a jar of roses / old anemic / from bright to brown / burners on to keep the plants warm / to keep the air good / to atmospherically calm you down / cords cross the room to ring half / unwilling to pull you from your place / a voice to shake you from your gaze / refocus you on the hot / growing cold / hello to hang up / hands pale / mouth improved from / glued to movement / you smile a bit before falling back into the room / i watch you like you're art / like you are / leaning like you are / to mean something / you stop traffic / you're the source / i'm the addict / surrounded by all your old instruments and fashion books / three years will keep you angry / angry angry / plenty angry and enthused / right into a state of static / moods quite ecliptic / panicked into / some sort of beautiful median / bleeding comedian / emerging from gun smoke / i am aways wrong when / assigning stories / but oh your / face fits so well / i am always off and / bleeding shoddy theory / the dig is grave / the grave i dig: the dialogue.