Famous 2 Poems Shuffled

Dealing cards in a Commerce Casino,
There is nowhere to meet

in service to the ways of luck,
once we’ve torn out each other’s hair

as if a history major wasn’t bad enough.
and yanked each other’s limbs

Percentages ride the side of loss.
until the joints ache

And you, somehwere, teaching little thugs
like weathered hinges

how to fashion dreams that fit
failing to consume the other

rather than just taking what they want
left separate no matter what

and selling what’s not theirs
thinking so bold and so alike

or what can’t be rightly bought.
with the dangerous unique

My La Mirada 2nd floor apartment
bulging from jacket pockets

leans over a rusting, empty pool
if two could be one

decorated in garage sale stuff,
it would have been us

things from grandma’s estate.
until of course we found the trigger

I blame a tide takes love away.
to blow us apart

Had it once. On a Hart Park bench,
again and again

talking Buddha like a mining project
because we both know it’s there

or Timewave Zero—cracked egg truth,
ego ever the predator

the deep reveal from drugs or you.
and so dark matter

Something in me must have caught,
pushes us away

strand of wool in a cartoon sweater,
as galaxies

gone when you get home.
as we request

You’re still out there, a distant shore,
the path of our invention

way to climb out, as a fish grows legs,
fighting singularity as we do

starts to wonder about mountaintops.
for more fun

Can’t talk of touch unless I holler
and unavoidable dreams of death

for a choir to come over here at once!
by untoward release