distant

reverberations,

misunderstandings

missed meetings

bad reviews

old jokes

humorless drivel

accompanying expectations

echoes of laughter

hint, hint

situations say

silently sway

away from today

tomorrow stays

one day away

or maybe i

just forgot

what the poem

was about (the

original one --)

and i started a new

poem in midst of the

ruins of the unfinished

poem exercise in the start.



nervous poetry,

words sputtered

to the internet

in streams it seems

sometimes my usefulness

is merely practicality

practically perfecting

past punctuality.



joyce. re-joice.

games. re-james.



other authors who

led the life of

the word game

played upon

the page/stage

of life within

imaginary boundaries.



coloring outside the lines,

writing poetry outside of the

barriers usually set forth as i

listen to laughter in the other room

and another person than the one i some-

times otherwise know. stages, moods, incli-

nations, situations, maturation, gradually

the laughter increases. new somebody or

old somebody from a life before my invol-

vement. a different her to other people

a different mood reaction, expectations,

misrepresentations, fluctuations,

irritability and an influx of

disgust and robust bouts of

this is mine and i am me

and you are you and i

don't see that you

and i can match

all that well

together.



more with a look-mood-extended-reactions

anticipation, rejections, contemplation,

poetic calculations as the conversation

causes laughter out there again and its

so childish - laugh - ha ha ha - she is

enjoying it i think maybe - languishing

in misfortune and the nameless dreamers

in the dreams laid out in many fashions

whispered moments laid forth as my mind

races from line to line and from moment

to moment wondering if and when and why

soemtimes it brings a tear to my eye in

the moment of sadness and laughter here

is following me.