now that you're gone you are everywhere

blueintheface

"now that you're gone, you are everywhere" - j.d. mcclatchy


now that you are gone, you are everywhere, see: the
worn truck tire flat on the side of the highway, the
tire swing strung on still by one rope, the other nowhere, the
autumn leaf scraped off the sidewalk (and the brown of it), the
empty bag of potato chips strung out and ripped, the
ash of the cigarette left for dead near the roof, the eagle
who has lost its sight and its hunger, its vigor stuck between its teeth
like the popcorn kernel you are so difficult to shake loose

you see, I have spread you so thin (with sex on arrest) that your image
is pasted on all of this
the underdeveloped
or overused
the meaningless in all of it, the sorry of your memory
the call that won't make it through

your back, your here i am waiting for you
don't wait anymore waiting is dying and we all can't be dying today
it's just not the way it's all supposed to be
see: me?

my piece of clay

That was really good, I loved the scraping the autumn leaf off the sidewalk line, I wish I had thought of that.