LIKE ME?

Like ME?

Status Quotes. Tons of Angles.

Clanging Brass. I hear wind

Tress thrash. Like me. Really like me

Crows surf over the cornfield.

Horses huddle against the fence.
Like me, really like me.

Albeit I am a bitter old man. bully,

solipsist, narcissist, no doubt: don’t

I love the thrashing  of trees in gusts

over 50 miles per hour;  early morning

salmon sky? And cold.

Trolling for Facebook Fights, my  joy

de vivre: he  said, she  said:  putting IT

in  play—the spirit of  the Living Crisis

at any point in time for the time being.

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Crows like high wind. Surfing sky,  ecstatic.

Smoke signals from caves: how we just

get along. .Can  you read me now? Like me?

The world abounds in nice.    

“With no power to annul the elemental

evil in  him, though readily enough he

could hide it; apprehending the good,

but powerless to be it; a nature like

Claggart’s,  surcharged with energy

as  such natures almost invariably are,

what recourse is left to it but to recoil

upon itself and, like the  scorpion for

which the Creator  alone is responsible,

act out to  the end the part allotted it.”

Herman Melville