make believe mouse (2017)

if you like your mouse, you can keep your mouse
but then it freezes to the very white page
dead dot dead just as i was drawing comics
in my injured mind of how 
poetry carries many tons ever asking why
but only wanting flowers
carve or not, mouse i blame the cheese in your worthless legs
this so-called rubber band of motivation
i don't find it credible, not even to a black hole mind
who can't cut and paste, but can cut the paste
causing numbers to fall off the paint by numbers roadmap
making the mouse the making, and no more mouse.


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stole the ivory from the tower and there was no tower left,
hacked the tusk from the elephant and ate his heart in a wine sauce,
made deviled eagle eggs, filled with pickled refugee-wish relish,
played racket sports with every organ they brought on silver trays,
drained wetlands and personally slit the nests of millions,
built redundant castles on top of pre-schools and health clinics,
rode in metal glass video shells
laid waste with nods, shrugs, and pen scribble crap stains
got horny with his cheeseburger when it was still a steer
became the result he fed himself, strong enuff to hack ivory
make mice both here and neither there
crate facts and create maps to no facts
build bunks in debunked terror story, install bunkees.
make, believe, make,  believe, make.



2-4-17 Portland, Or