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HIKING, SOMETIMES

but of course i sleep in mountains,
shadow-tripping through my dreams of
orphans, and only children.

i am one of them.

my skin itches,
a riotous flea-bitten map,
my rosebud tits spilling out
into teacups that
the ragamuffins pull to their
wind-rustled mouths,
ill-bred pinky fingers unraised,
clenched.

my flesh feeds them.

i rock tumble into foreign laps,
being petted: a pet-
my trail-needy nature
electrocuted, fenced, and underfed
until my apathy gives and i am
rewarded
with western conveniences.

i am an amusement for you.

but of course mountains sleep in me,
crumble into pebbles and broken schemes
of whores, and addicts.

i am one of them .

Future Tramping

scribbled after 'camping'. next time, no tent. just arms.

TRAMPING

we could be happy.

of course, fences would have to be

broken into mementoes of

when we were

at odds;

the classic rock station would

fizzle and pop, like cola,

but

it would keep on;

and we'd have to

share our bed with dogs and

our plates with cats

but

we could certainly be happy,

as happy as

America

will allow

two young, jaded kids to----

NO.

you and i will NOT be happy,

not in this

white-collar accumulation of

post-its and crisp linens and

refrigerator magnets:

i'll suffocate

you'll hide

and we'll both end up

sleeping with cadavers of

the other,

necrophilia

branding our marital bedsheets.....

marital bedsheets?

more like a shroud.

steal me, unwedded, in the ocean

halcyon moments of

homelessness

electrifying our human vessels--

the homes we can build! in:

each other,

in caves,

in trees,

in the road--

make happyness

make sound

make a you

make a me

make an idea

that will drive us into

each other's homes

that we'll build beneath

our threadbare clothes.

we could be happy! if:

fences were no obstacle

and we unrolled our sleeping bags

on the alien beach that

some faker "owns"

and made the music

of undulating water and bodies

and were able to share this vision of 'bed'

with the world, so overanalyzed and capitalized---

yes, you and i could be very, very happy.