Colorless Green Ideas

Food and water are essential to life One without the other is hard to find Food can be caught grown found It can radiate down touching your skin turning it brown Water can take any form like the wonder twins Salt and clear fresh and clean It grows on you And it's free And the people of the earth stood waiting Can you hear me? That piece of bread caught their food stare and one by one their eyes opened as the bread became a festival And then there was a fish who split and it's tuna clubs Hey Sandwich Artist Fill these bags we have to make our way back into the mountains We all made a run for food and water Eastern Daylight Time floating endlessly we become mice we break the speed of sound And slam into a sandwich and drink like dwarves and clean up afterward And then we're ready to go

We wake in the middle of the forest all silent except the sound of wildlife in the distance The midnight sex in tents We became slowly aware of our breath in the cold We felt safe even though we were in many ways Alone Pressed against each other like ghosts in a grey midnight 1960's talk show And sing by the fire that grew so low We sang songs and told stories and then went, one by one to a place where we could be alone Sometime before dawn it rained embers dying from red to black winnowing into smoke and steam the fire vanished into the night The memories of our bond a secret smile we sometimes share Best friends forever And we've gone through life now, you and I The years strip away the different awards Medals And we return to the forest If only in our minds. I close my eyes and feel the damp ground my fingers pressed into soft wet resistance The moss Leaves Alive You and I If but for a moment in between the d...

I saw the man running from the police I heard the bullet crack the sky through the leech That burrowed black into the officer's skull Like a lie or a piece of vomit That felt so good coming out of my throat or was it my nose Please don't hold it against me That I sometimes pray For America Or that I throw up It feels so good to stick my finger down my throat