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Tidbits of wisdom.

Probably/possibly/but not prohibitively over John McIntosh ill head.

We have been boys

whistling at a deer

flinching on a tar-covered road

whistling as if to call out

its breed, as if to

take in some of its flight

and night wings of silence.

We have been boys

so cold under a moon

the embers like the one

thoughts holding us in a

group, some starry

thought we hold

inside our guts

waiting for love.

We have been boys

as strong as bears

the sweat like a call

for the earth to open

up, for the green in

moss to be sucked

in, to shield us from

suits and buildings

and empty stairways to

nowhere.

We have been boys

crunched up into a gang

ball-less, so mean, against

the grain--so mean and

triumphant against the masses of

them; we have clutched

metal and spikes

and turned gunpowder

and electricity into

the bolts of Zeus.

We have been boys

alone in beds

with a mother’s

lost warm palm

the dry tears

wondering where

fathers go

or if they all end

up in giant

wrecking yards

asleep at the

wheel, the giant

crusher on 24-hours

a day, killing

them all.

We have been

boys in those

junkyards; fleshy

girls; dogs like

Satan’s men;

the sound of

the earth roaring;

yet silent like

a rail yard;

silent like a boy

alone, whistling graveyards;

away but silent like a boy.

Plowing the Moon

-by P.K.H.

WE ALL TRY TO BE BOYS

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