61

We've had a good October
Warm weather -- the 70s!
Cold walks around the ragweed side of town
and around the wide fields
A good October for the year,
late nights studying,
with friends, out.
A real good October.

60

Kind of an unusual experience.
Don't know if you've noticed it, too.
Trees are only pretty when they're fading.
Pictures are only pretty when they're bright.
What about pictures of trees?
There are oh so many.

59

You don't walk that lot
so much as that lot walks you.

Pay mind to the hush,
like rain descending
the rusted trailer of planks
pulled from the gone walls.

58

Crunch gravel
still air
shallow breaths
downhill tread
stir leaves
Freshman echo

57

Having a cat,
is like having a
near-sighted old man
that follows you everywhere.

There's times,
he can't even remember
your name.

Other times,
he can't remember
anyone else's.

56

I have an office now.
It has desks, and chairs, and couches.
There are two scrawled upon greenboards.
It is right next to the room where I did
math for four years before.
It is quiet.

55

It's not that no one says it,
it's just that I haven't heard someone say
fucking
in a long time. Am I sex deprived?

It's weird when you stress the f,
it takes the emphasis off the violence,
sounds more lovely. Isn't that weird?

54

They'll show you how to run the show, yeah
they'll show you what the statue looks like
from the foot left in the water,
and they'll show you how the Caribbean Road leads
right to the Brandenburg gate,
if you dig.
So, you dig?

This is weird stuff, we believe.

53

All of your friends are out
on dates with other people.

I saw the guy with dirt entrenched
under his fingernails
sipping soup with an irksome smile.

52

I started flossing again,
but neglected my journal.

Isn't that always the way?
Anal floss.