wandering around Palo Alto in a haze

slowly through the soft, rounded homes



wading through the dreams I had held only to myself

broken down in the middle of being

far afield,

hating to be 2 minds at once ...



(now, the whole experience will go down

as a strange moment in the personal

histories of 2 people askance)



the feeling of being in the wrong place

just burned me with the fear that I gave

way to brutal… Continue

where is that place
we go
when we are really
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.Pico the Status Digit


.Pico the Status Digit
-- one trillionth/very small
standing large in the hall;
hurling his image
into the fray
of lovers,
peaking the hour
through the
wonder
of splitting atoms;
curving
and gritting his teeth
for the ease
of burgeoning infamy.

© 2008, rex mcfarlin

picking my teeth, the other morning, near 1st and pike

with a plank of dominance-over-others

i noticed a peculiar sparkle

emerging from the gaps of mortar

between the bricks of the intersection,

itself slumbering -- baked and sealed

over hours and hours of sweat and human breath,

which once willfully carriaged the pulse

of some other person's dream

diffident to mine, askance, but not uncaring.

i stopped picking.

a splinter had finalized,…

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At times,

I marvel in stark fascination at my ferocious

Desire to kick my cat across the room,

As it sits, unaware,

Quenching its thirst

in a basic bowl of water...

As if I'm overcome by a strangefamiliar

Fixation for my own

Position of power

Above the beast.



Then, I think about

Some of the powerless peoples

Among us,

And,

The longing hearts of the powerful...

And the rampant fixation

With calling it, "All good."

"We're… Continue