The unit of human noise is a bazaar
likewise matches are blown from a windowsill
the complication bred mistakes even before
it became this complicated little errors like love
returned to and is hollow and empty yet there is still
the noise the damned noise from the street the streets

an avenue that is an ocean but in the middle
of land why say dry land there is no coast
there are no beaches no places to get off
no reflection or
edge shadows may bend about at right angles
sure, though, there are bits of mirrors
you might see two objects reflected your face
someone else's smile but it is spread out there are no corners
for calendars only a dizzying shimmer here.

so there are no days and day-ends, no
horizons that are constant and my head slips
with the weather and the sentiment of the noise . and there are ghosts

there is not that tide that meets change or resistance
no glass balls from ]apanese fishing fleets to hit rocks
or beachcombers no shore activities, congress
of old faces old places here in the middle
these hang on like the rain. The ocean is too large to ever become
a polluted, overfamiliar scene unless rocks are exposed
here and there and hang on to cultures for a few thousand years
and therein lies our difficulties. You and I have drunk from
the same coke bottle the same important echo source
so many times been battered about cruelly and recognized it
wanted to get off for something new or throw old things
over a shoulder but the commerce is done to us. we are old nouns,
nouns that follow sentence order, acted upon, nursed.
There is no pride to be had in that constant act.
 

She brings me water and acts familiar
is a comfort to the photographer and I
am fully bored and mounted from afar as postcards;
reputation and wealth are the negative
there will be relief from the posing of our heads
when we are spread thin like only the most familiar mountains
and then may die going about business as ordained by life.

Is my life indeed that which is slowing progress
are old ideas saluted and posed for like whores that have become
over the years
free the act so familiar
the tides
outlast the moon ?