COMMUNITY CENTER b/w OTHER MINOR REQUESTS

Community Center

it was i who he not me
probably
say we
be invisible:
breathing out the cold,
precipitation out our throats.

and it was they who maybe we
who fell apart at the seams
at the sketches of their dreams

sometimes he gets down on his knees
and says please please please
but feels guilty of his pleas

so he will breathe and breathe and
breathe and breathe and
breathe (please) breathe (please) breath
(please) breath please heed no retreat

for
it's not defeat it's
the sound of bustling feet

it's the need it's
the need.

and they who can be us who
wants them to understand we
who wants to be we, be it him
or her and you and us is us is us
is us is it is it (it is).

Other Minor Requests

I wish I had eaten
a gumdrop once in my life
so I can know how sweet
"sweet as a gumdrop" means

or imagine Thoreau's
quote ("marching to the
beat of a different drummer")
that the beats all like
bmPbmPtch-- BmPBmPtch da tss..!

I imagine sleeping and controlling
my dreams before they decide
to dictate today
because today can not suck
and can't I just hope to root
for the good guys (the real good nice guys
not this "nice guys finish last" heresy

because if you are concerned about the
concept of last place then your niceness would
not exist in a perfect world) for I hope
that each other is what we are, that everytime
we nod, we nod in stereo.