It's the gift that keeps on taking autumn

It's the gift that keeps on taking. Pressed the flesh, barely pulled through the manic. Emotions busting at the seams. Haven't felt this narrow since 2003.

Teeth holes cavities infection, crumbling sharp dull failing,

bleeding gums chewing impacted, bite the tongue's muscle, digest the spill

Mess swollen allergic, expensive years

Offensive poverty, hate love die birth bills pills

Prescription therapy, intensive forgetful disease

Missing Teeth

Vacation water, July mountains crowded

With nothing and everything, river old lake young

August gives into Autumn retreats

Magnified naked fresh air peaks view more peaks sometimes cities

Can be vacations too

Manic, consistently unpredictable,

Afternoon is always morning, sometimes no morning at all

No plans, no escape

Haven't felt this empty

Since the first time I recognized my extra skin

Since I grew into it the first time around

Boycott the election year hysteria.

Fashion more sex, gather less war

Catapult the mess down the line

Down the generations ready to receive it

Or never be born at all

Raise lost questions raise lost cities.

Divide the party over and over and over

Collection emptied for more personal identity

Find a steadier path easier to erase all traces

And bury the prints

Last summer woke me up this morning

Covered my body in dream sweat, rolled over in it.

Last chance to walk away left with the season

Too much, Too little

Too tired to stand in the middle

Nothing less than a finishing line

Could anchor this wandering mind