street ambition
tosses me around like lottery numbers

as i divide/conquer complex ego
with air, slow fast slow fast entering me
purple, flowing stringily through my ears
to my fingertips when brakes, applied so
green turns to red and lurch

my stomach strains pitifully against restraints
and my incipient breath is so quickly
coughingly displaced from my seldom lungs
that i sigh softly and feel, as

that everpresent tingle, traveling from
fingertip->-soul

asserts pain and love.

01/25/2007

Posted on 01/25/2007
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