CRAIG STONE WORKS GET IT?
    01-10-09

    Everything It Is This Is Not

    I think, shit,
    anyone can do that.
    But I don’t.
    The movie marquee was laid to rest
    amidst its numerology of flowers.
    Did I mention relatives
    Stood around, as trees,
    Branches lifted skyward?
    There were only three of them.
    Hosanna the Bunny Rabbit in the Sky anyway.

    Hosanna the clanking in the sky.
    Up there you can see trains
    from below. You can count
    the ties whiz by.
    You can arrange them
    into Lincoln Logs of toothpicks.
    Still, you cannot keep a tally
    of the spinning. It’s all confusion
    Now, never and always.

    What is the answer
    to you speeding from Reno?
    Does it rhyme with saguaro?
    Does anything that matters?

    What was the trajectory
    from Anne Frank’s house?
    At what point do you meet yourself
    at the speed of light?
    Is it Amsterdam that is below sea-level,
    or is it all of us?

    This is all so ironic.
    If only you had configured properly,
    instead of spitting.
    Ah hell,
    you know what they say:
    You can’t exonerate them for trying.
    I won’t stir the soup
    if you don’t.