Sometimes it's less than nothing
further below zero, colder than
five inches thick white freezing up the pavements
and i'm looking down at my sunset boulevard fingertips
half chewed with restlessness and i'm thinking how did i end up here
and why are you still staring at me through your woody allen glasses?
why am i swapping my eight hours sleep for six and then three, is it
because it's not just the sky that's still bright but the air glowing all around
us so i can feel it in my lungs orange and warm but frosty when i breathe it out.
Sometimes it's persistence
Sometimes it's getting lucky with timings it's all timings it's a construction
of time i'm built of time i am hours and minutes transformed into arms and legs,
stiff shoulders and problematic genetalia.
But sometimes it's even more
even when i race to consume it
and i'm in it and i am it and there
is no question that i am living it.
Sometimes it's not about having
a kettle or a toaster or a damp
drywall or a another smoke
or another click or another