Apple

Every day an anxious man
appears in my apple
and offers me a Magritte.

Jackson Pollock

Sometimes the Americans form a circle
around something awful that has
happened.
Sometimes it is a painting.

The Tao

It’s easy to have no path and no plans,
but it isn’t very easy to have no thoughts,
and it’ll never work out with thoughts.

—William Minor

Unrealized

Here, also, in this gilded void
of stale sadness, things get murky.

Perpetuating frustrations, exaggerations and fabrications. Laying a false trail
across the visceral ether, where ennui
is a luxury. A lone sentinel, constantly on guard
against my lower self, and constantly
straying from my watch. So many twilights, so few dawns. So many ways of dying, so few
of being born. So much far
that once was near.
And when it was there,
I didn’t care. 

—John Tottenham