UNLOCKED DOORS, SHE IS BIKINI

Unlock the door girl,
Cry baby, cry
Lock lip & soak

Baby, I am back

I see her when I drive by the hospital
& think that should she junk crash
She'll be in good hands
She'll get docked on house arrest
Her legs are old glory,
Still beautiful

Her lips remind me of wet lakes,
Smooth questions
She eyes me & says
Please meet me,
A weeknight, preference

She says step back, let me evaluate
She says we are all addicted to something
She says she has an MBA in the management of dope & men
That she can use to downsize anytime in her economy

She has mile laugh
Lines & tight squeeze
Rope burn hands thumb jeans
Tangled clothes in spin-cycle arms,
Wrapped around an out-breath
take back what you just said
I want to be like you, only to lust you

All this laughing,
All is dumb
& mind the squat, keep clean

Girls dancing in hot skirts working up the dirt floor
Slippery & broken through two speakers
Thumping thunder & slurring poems
Undrunk, this love

Knock knee woman
Blown ears
See factual account
Ignite things, throw off shirt
Naked, a car asleep

Can't remember when to recognize
Scribbling as code, or symbol
Somebody change the animation
Sweetness, indie films
Rolling in like a lost father late on payments
But Jack is sober & marked by less bully-moves

Saw pee on the faucet in a rest stop near Chicago
I thought that I was ghost riding
Begging for full-grain
Begging for long bright signs
Begging for beacons blinking

In the dream, she stopped hanging with dance crowds
I saw boys leaning against boys leaning against girls leaning against girls
Hot balance,
Streamlined gender
Group shot photo collage
Time is an hourglass of tipped sand,
All caught fighting,
Grasping for air, a hand

Lipstick ladies spilled on the carpet
Luck is running out,
Fake it, make it
Big moments, Lola finds her niche

This manipulation of streets,
Hard admission

Lucid nightmares
Behavior, a snap shot
A shag carpet, slow toe boogie
Tiled kitchen floor
Dark is day when all he sees is fluorescent

Baby, pick me by the poke door
I am waiting,
Sure enough to undo,
Timely enough to rub in

Sight, 50 feet away- she is bikini
Shut lid & nothing said
Red hand cold waving
50 feet away,
She jumped off bridges of reason into a rainy moment
Marble memos,
Solid stenos
Sold to dollar boys with loaded pens &
Boxes of photos
She, cross-legged
Stretching for stars, a yoga pose
Broken toilet handle, unattended
Running

City, believe in yourself

Her left foot toe-touches ground
Sound, a shifting of arms
Scratching her nose, sun light
He sees her in the mirror,
Soluble lips pressing together his name
Hello, asshole

She is waking up, big-trucked cities
Paragraphs
Quickly read, everything
Quick time

She told me in tears,
I'll catch you someday!
I'll see the castle of your shadow and love you with my lips

He knows she will be cornered in foreign country
Armed & hunched w/ unshakable decisions,
Loud is her distortion and I am an excuse

Contributor: Matthew Wascovich