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Tell this to your children: right now, go tell them

When the river is full, fish will walk the earth.

What happened here - light graffitied into being.

Stretch and yawn,

metaphorical, displaced and stumbling

over lungs.

around  ever-confessional remember-mouths,

a purple mass bloomed &  tongue becomes tourniquet,harp-hearted osteotome.

This underside of being.

This is a snake eating snake eating its own tail.

Broseph, you  know this - what wounds enter unopposed.

Have I, hapless, told you of multiple origins?

This same thing inverted - e.g.

what you hear and what inheres.  

What keeps & what deigns be kept--

born continuous & borne besotted.  

Resorted to and breath-stealing beauty.  

You’re  bequest of gestes,

raining darkness into tight magic.

You’re baby teeth loosening,

you're a small dead mouse in the beak of jay.

What comes to me is easy.

Thinking never not magical,

like   barest precipitate,

likening   once,   involute.

Form of forms as hot & dark

& imperfectly distributed.

This  re must be--pooling denseness.

Only blood’s translatable.  

If this could never not be,  n scant comfort.

Make and unmade, even selves cohere.

Some measure--  present at its punniest.  

  password is: Ileteveryonedown

That Thing you know now.

You think secrets are meant to be kept --

but no secret truly belongs to one person.

Dubious this, my sweetest pea.        

Gravid, I mean gravitas.

Swelled newness in you

when we dared not hope.

Allowances have been made.

Hums, loomed & varied, proximal.

  fuck you say—

half-roamed and roaming.

Staid & words-a-blinding,

unruly and taken up.

We swoon & are read,

take none such liberty.

With us, darkness, hi r & yon—sea-bound.

  world’s gone silver-pulsed,  stillborn.  

We knew ourselves or we thought we knew.

Something took flight.

We outed ourselves out of ourselves.

Left from the leaves. Divided up.

Your sheltered light, gilt & limned,

Some simply are—O, whisper dark.

We would not unsee.

Flickered & gyred.

We stood beneath plums.

Surely, waylaid, surely casements.

I was caught unawares, flightless.

Your throat brook I’d soak in.  

O many-chambered grief.

O nautilus shell.

As heat burns, smoke blots out the sun.

Eir's Kindness—diaphanous.

Pivot, two-faced, twice this and what laden, lifts.

makes us lighter—clear water.

Lensing, taken measure.

O, what-must-have-been.

Guiding hands O, metamorph.

You were you, pure, strewn light.

Wrack us, but gently.

  The sower knows what is seeded.

O, cenotaph, waken   known thing.  

Forge nomen,   jade-eyed angel.  

Take measure, clear in any storm.

A glass bead   eye.

O, maelstrom, let  re be currents within us.

A swathing, limitless moment.

  soul’s slaked and cauled.

Bound what I know and what I hope.

Gravity’s too simple concept—swelling and briny.

Try pliant, omen.  

Foment our softened hearts.

Vessels & soundless.  

What did  y take you for?

We took you unashamed, we took you naming.

If we were wrong, fire

beckoned.

We were far from the water mirror.

We saw each other.

  mountains below, surfeit of significance.

&  there's no shame in being discursive.

yr killin’ me.

Do I feel it – yes.

Ding’s too kindword. & dong— 

well, dong’s out too. So, dung,  n.

  sharpest retort persists.

This is   glass shard splintering.  

I did not think you’d come.

Avail yourself. Bide time.

Fickle-footed and childless,

heave me over.

Cliffs,   lake you failed into being.

If this is all I’m allowed  to do.

 there's no takesy-backsies.

This is eternal, and the worst of it.

Steadied and resteadied.

Substrate and condensate.

Some initial perturbation—mannered & instinct.

To start to differentiate.

I never had your stamina, dread, or wasted sentiment.

Wikipoesis unfists   line, O, charming boy-girl.   The trick is to watch without staring.

We talked to each other. Took time,took what offered itself, I recall. You, deep-veined. Me, unlettered.

&   storm came in quickly. O, TFW you unlike   brimming fanciful.  

Like, once our bodies knew what we’d become tangles of smoked-glass skin, stretched desire,

& weary, we slept   fever back & dreamt.

You didn’t what you couldn’t & I hated you for it.

&&&

Love   harmonious,   well-tunedOf orchards, of longing  and of poetic spaces.

I suppose chivalry’s dead. Knock knock.Who’s  re. Neologist. Neologist who?

Um… Unvoiced -nesses, -ides, and -ties. What’s a-positional, before and after? It’s putting   income in nincompoop!It’s answer   door well beforeYou understand   things we tell

Each o r in passages between.Has not that I’ve bestowed Call unto me song. Such sweetness

She said, ``I don't do “unto.”Nei tidal nor tidal bore.

Call back what’s been undone.Call back what’s unpresented.

So stay distant. Staying.  

Dare you to leave it   strength to improve.

A change,final change includes no authority.

Oh   unnecessaries of generation—

to harm or compare or associate.

Act so that  re is no use

incenter. Wide action is not

a width.”answer yields up.

  body’s politics more than souls --

I was not awake & I,

I was not unsurprised.

I’d heard   words darked-up

and, like I, exasperated.  

As if you’d been enough.

Fanfic’s always the best fic.

She called me   calm before   awesomeness.  

So I call her, in principle.

It was never my thing — change.

So I dare not, so I’d feign Black Betty,

that pretty poisson, those golden tassels--

O, those pumps and whispers.  Longing, as  y say,

& when we draft we compromise, we invite excess.

Hoping for more yet never not dreaming.

Finding our feet and stepping through rough.

We do what we must and we must never sleep.

Breaking new barriers and searching newgrounds.

Exploring ourselves and   unknowns of life,

Growing and changing as the world chooses.

Out on our own in   unexplored world;

Making so plain just how well we cope.

A newborn created, all concerned relieved;

More reasons to live now than just to brea

In and breath upon moment

  fine hairs on your forearm remember

Enjoy   battling ideals.

        meet me underground

        meet me where   nowhere

becomes a place we understand to be our new home.

my new phone

blocks out   sound. blocks calls from your mo r and mine

mine heart mine letter mine own

tongue rendered rent

due north, due aparted

apartment in house with inglenooks with olive light fixtures

you and I staring into it

Is  re stillgod to claim home

Here

Half-cut, drinking milk under your arm,

counting my sins,

Pleading. And all   while   womb of eternity swells

Waiting to birthbright-star world

Where I becomes   We and eyes begin to see

Beyond this tiny now that aches with   beatings of time

Against   timelessness of all Creation

Like Butterfly being born

Again. . .and again. . .and again. . .

Afresh

I wish for once,   tap
on my shoulder would be enough
to set off   fireworks under my bed.  

Don’t say you wouldn’t do it too

If you had   chance to trace your lips in gold

Skimpy silk baths and rose candles casting light onto your skin

You’re not human anymore

I know you would

I reach deep into   heart of painting,

pull out its guts

ripping canvas and flesh,

always darkness

past whiteness

&&&

Have you not always?

Have you not rope and sail?

What may from wind and wrack?

A lens,   sky,path.

O, bought our dis-ease.

Bringer of salt, every facet caul.  

What likens may yet be our undoing.

What undid   wave fills us with light.  

Tendence calls us back.

Silt lends depth to us.  

What tensing multiplies.  

  orchard reft of fruit.

As surely as the stone cradle was bought.

As surely as the body left unbending.

 n utmost,  n waved, at least one.

At least   body’s salt. At least lichen. At least as souls tend salt-ward.

  The lens-curved moon bends the tide.

What passes lacks me right.

  start you took vexed measures.

Vexed portent and skin.

You and I contain the world.

We bed toward what’s final &

our hearts lit from within.

Allow me  to see fiction.

Our doubting parts doubtless run.

And shadows fill our mouths.

What buds will taste heavy with need.

Be encrusted.

Be the depth from which   darkness comes.

So we must, partly and we,

deep as something unexpected is,

envy consequence. What brooks no rising star.

And what does not salt   wound cannot help but salt   wound.

Heat akin to density, buoyant as words.

Your bodysign.

Palm, wind, & fir.

So   earth parsels us out.

So the wind melted us out.

Did we miss   earth?

From every, this particular, this rest & all for naught.

Burning brands as plenty.

  answer stuns   lake,   possible bare-boned thing.

If sameness  n sameness touched with gold.

Iftome  n   too-broad sea.

Push of the sea.

We matter-stuffed, wedged into time’s mouth.

  dark start of   wave.   heedless substitute.

We are that which travels. That which shallows even love.

You found your way. Found your line.

We could do this.

How simple   spoken,   discrete.

As unconvincing as the extent.

As we’re never not sight, not sleeplessly new.

  the sound of any bird drags twine round our hearts.

None so heedless. None so crystal-still.

O dry stone wall of my heart,

sea-glass and what’s unforeseen.

Etchwell in me.

No great sound.

For have you notriven breeze from death?

Scant summoning gives no words.

What trials, what questions spoke in sleepless tongues.

For or place us.

O, sought-ones, un-show   stars.

  not-quite excess and   most worn.

This is not the way. This is no favor, no place and its undoing.

One maimed bears us dark-ward.

What surface goaded us.

I’ve heard that every infinite’s not   smallest infinite.

Distant as those stone walls.

As that fast ship.

  broken surface of pond

  silvered clouds. Catchless as the world tucked under.

  faint buzz of blood behind   eyes.

A hunger and   ruin,   sea bent to wind.

 n calling,  n stones and lush of silence.

Pearls and what might, or time and your ga ring mind.

To   see pale things.

This too. As unlike a palm.

Yes and what becomes us--thou monument, thou dream.

Hasten   dawn.woven fast.

Dream us lightened in   fragrant woods.

Weave us hopeful.

And if this comfort you,

I will be here when you wake.

  a few moments, heart-cozing and querulous.

Faith, how   shores drown.

  many-hued sorcelled us.

A chorus drowns a shining star.

Holied, holy every lowing mass.

Divvied and hardened, we slip patterns alight.

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What pulls you-ward tugged me-ward Pulled you-ward took and took Long been havenhaven air salt-air on   tongue, all's tentative     this takes me out of   house   is this good thing for me,writer, took amber-lidded and body known dull crown Thus  thought, whelmed waved to I'm so was I was with you but not with you. phosphor, thought, moonglow—  present unpresent to the self undone nodal node of what manifests   switch to   body flecked thought churn and spray. through waters churn water like powder broke on   rocks and becoming olds   habit   furrows through  uggs uggs    breaking water shattered. On   rocks. said stood. tidal ebb and flow and thought   end of us.But thought beginnings too. and the end of me. the ebb and flow through of mine what me and and not my ebb and flow of it. through the    ebb and churn of it. and when churn and where the end was ending hoped ending heart in   forestheart where were   tears  n  thought phosphor. From   cliff I saw all   end ending. I thought, phosphor— On   cliff I thought moonglow. Ebb and flow where we’d ebb of wave moonglow.   ebb and flow of , is this   end ending  moonglow.  res being not of me that  and flow, Of   moonglow. swell of waves. moon wave-swell. swell of waves  light    not     sea fire reflecting moon tighteni. Tightening shatter-love. Shard chard wrung ourselves from wax depth I’d swallow churns   depth  resa soreness   body lies ba   spine phosphorescent as   moon   chatter-love. g   dearest, you are and you are not and for what it’s worth I’m chattering lire wave fire white fire this is certainly not about life growing liminal space you lungs   tremble n   chest nothing must change. Not   tree, not   shiver I was gone and II as  not gone is,  n   all-encompassing syntax   dies been cast unsuspected   moonglow on   aves How of   self maintained nits on   sea roar of   not-sef.   low roar of   not-self.   sea roar of   not-self. Oar of   dissolution  of  self is   low roar of   not self.   sea   flash of     most of   selv   dissolution   Of selves, write   one done. Write to myself. What part of you,   messageOf all in all containThose waiting What to come to com That all should Of any and all I submit borne any and all surface our Furtive, Dearest,furtive dearest, our lips Deas light breaks us, our lips divide   world. . mouth ourselves out of ourselves. as as let lips as our lips parting our lips split   light Dearest, now Stay To remain our lips split lipped liptongued as   taste  ir want defies our want taste sight want   want knborne bear things that would not be borne, sighted clear for now and always. suspend pend bear bearing one as all things would be borne. as want and wants urging cmes for all took-thing for want of only trees want of want’s want and wants craving thy miss   trees for want of  ir eyes what’s nearly to almost was is and ever will be. burst frucht  ir wanting scales we’ve oars enough, and knots. trace   scale that found us wanting.  Scales & Trace   sea that spurned us trace makes us prey   scales trace whenever spurned once trace whatever once is enough speak shadows to fullness,  tend foam   coast trace   underside of line whatever new came to fruitti online to finish line   line   sea with tears. Pulse   edge pulse   whatever salt fills us to   edge Enough We’ve oars enough, and knots. Let us turn Ano r salt-pulsed, seaward.sea-measure every pulse measure of   sea  se.   Those o r Salt and   sea from as o rs pulse salt salt of o r anAs seas to those who pulsed as sea to pulse, as pea to that which pulses salt as salt Water   pulse of sea sea-pulse tide & Pulsed Dearest, linger.  We’ve seen what oar,knot, what edges   world -of-us & where we end  as pulse is just divert embraces us. edge of us. — so linger        ing  you spoke   Shade Knot yourself to us as we would have you .knotted-up with shadows  spoke shadows full. ness. full.Naught  O shadow flesh ness.    took veiled shadow to flesh shadow to flesh felled voluptuous voluminous lined to fullness filed amended conceptual filamented. connected stretched filament filled out all to double ness. lined shadowed edged out to fullness doubled   blank of all things. pulsed double yet put scant shadowed   stuff leaf with imbued edged ever flax fibers push cattails to   air, cattail fluff   sk kiss cattail fluff stuff out flung spilt out slipped to pulsed each and every wordoars hymn. we wrung ourselves out of ourselves—What pulsed you are nigh nigh to us. O, had we known what pulsed you here, O almost tasted What pulsed you here O, known and brought you nigh close What’s taken place and have you bro rs ere you many do your hearts beat as one. Pulse-bob pulse pulse echo sounded found for you, took measure taut  & your   touted reached echo for you poured pulsed lined edges palped pulsed palsied pulsed heard hymn palped felt   tensed taut tensed porous porosity tensed   hymned edge hemmed it all  hymned edged all line-edged slip   line-edged this and what escapes. broken lines stunted our breath Edge membranous simpledit was not easier than limned cloud and candle-flame. character all with sense candle-flame tended limned heart and flame every flame limned cloud and word candle flame with made missives of our hands missives of our limned made missives of our heil  nce lingered over dulled made missives of our eyes and throat. carved misses from looks cold missives fashioned missives from though missive-dark missive poured every face into you many limbed pulsed missives of every sort missives of all forms. flame-limned white porcelain ceramic bone missives we vessels of flame-limned vessels what lingers blinds shoal   hold  at held   past beyonded what current washes over us.What lingers. freighted what veil hangs between us lingered, swallowing tears. De-vesseled Dearest, in my mind she is not alone What current washes you Are you alone? or are  you bound to us as you are. limned all with sense we, ember-lidded and dull—you shone-through, limned us linger vessels and laden with that to what currents laden with umber Linger.  umber vesseled and full-throated we came lingered among you   wan leaves left leavened  current enraptured thus, full-throated I am full to bursting solaced from filled with you filled to bursting flame-limned took solaced solaced all ember-lidded   sky, ember-lidded,   lake rim osrs what are clouds where you are rare clouds, what precipitate. dearest,   mulls fear, light-blind  so answer us—what host of you how many are re ano r mull ids limned-over eyes, candle-flame. candle-flame, how many, wan damps ideal disembodied disemb limned polished glass  candle flame limns   eye. faced fan polished glass damp and listless or ember-lidded how many pairs of eyes how many multitude how many of shards  your polished eyes shard and are  re o rs are you alone chocked full of  where are   o r and are  re more o rers polished bit of glass for eyes are  re o rs what calls  for what name amen what amen polished stone polished bits of wax, are  re o rs  remote missive knowing back of   eyes, rote ends of rote ends of song, lineaments. candle-flame, gave what poisoned username. gazed opened bent bended and bent to us we were  stayed bastion enraptured told thused rote &stony-limbed. missives dismantled & full Made full with tears. made full by hymnal limned limned hymned rough rough ache of matrixed farrow choke-stone,  tightens limned missed limned wound wisped whispers rough missives stony-limbed.   one whispers tied noted to birds, carve fingered thin over long, missive took queried of lingered rote missive one wrote rote dridded   barest bare sparse sparse  we & once filled to drink d stood fantod hand madewell, full watched crow-  wan damp stain flame on   back of   eye. led back of   eye. all that haloed ache & falls thrown listless to   air thrown bound wholeness reversed hence and whence coronal flame-stayed scarred retina of aching breast might mou d candle-flame shifting changing varied   sound sounds crows   we poured candle-flame halo retinal blob d us sound out still what could have been For you and for what’s left behind.  Poured out. Poor For you & for what’s left what could have been choke stone afterimage flame-shadowed, shadowed flame of you, candle-flame and echo of candle's flame. ember-lidded, eyed & you, blue echo of candle's flame, purple echo of candle-flame lidded and dull ember-lidded. bide For you & what you  You choke-stone of what could have been, you flint-souled jagged us raw, and you wrung from ourselves. found, we were wrung from ourselvesyou found us we were wrung out of ourselves. you found us unprepared. Wring wrung out we were caught unawares we were unprepared breath possible thus. you found us unprepared—led whispering sketch ing we j. we were unprepared. cried vibration spoke softly wung wrung fly wing flown what breathing does soft what soft breath passed possible bled led blunt softed potentiality fire that woke your Pass allow Fire and what have you consumed. Ten thousand years, smoke of all I love. everything if you would but   smoke of ten-thousand years. I would burn ten-thousand years-How offers time – burnt Ten thousand years. Counteless Water, fire, what element have you what have you elental. Flint Worn as you are, As You’re our Pace Spate Earth-fire Salt and fire. never not be borne upFire We'd deserved Deserved Collapse Forced forced Resolve to Pured What amber Placate plication Enfold Lest We’re Stuck us-ness. Prickle Past gently or not at all lint-souled, choke-stone crystalline, what forces bound you  nce. What heat solved caught me up, stone caught up stuck in my throat . I am born in the dissolution of    everything we could say crystalline quartzite in our hands.  you came suspended sustained I cannot what we could not as she said you &    re you were here are your retrograde jagged quartz jagged   lines of our hands, scored-dragged dragged proofs  we scored dragged lines into our hands what, membranous, delays, what we'd scored our spark innumerable rough roughed do done do tufted prepremade plan planned curry favor sight unseen.  what delays  what membranous, slows thy step. delays? Slows tempts  e? What longs tempts. sound. Our here  what sparked what clumped what envenoped see what shaped egg tooth take this pillar of flame What lately have thou lately been.  Have you now have you lately been pressed pushed in into-  joined join Were you yet loved? Candle-flame press forward   crowd edge-of-  void. You were, as much as we could bear.  As much as we could bear. & were you here, yet . voidWe yessed What void-gift gift and more gifted given gifted-one. Thou O, void-kept Thou, thousand-faced child. ness spite spite spite-heavy wring wrung wrung rung thou—doubled-one edge-of-all-things, doubled-one we are borne unto bear us forar bear us ight harry us born We gave much and  n more. This too. We gave much &  n more.show that what makes  word break how bokeHow is that founded Condrial condon has been of all my mito-  c ondrial born-to-me gnomon calls. Seek plum harry caray . Come to   edge edge me sedge scuttle-close born to meKeepest dobling born born  . void-rendering torn tear O void tendering rendering thou void-thou tendered thou   we had.  fleet you would not do not despair voided OR void- we arced every        looked bear up bear up borne unto burned freighted bore bowed bowed arced beard to bear bore   what do we give, what haven’t we done ablutions O causal cauterized soured blighted bli ly went. went sour what thisTook whatever came our way, praised it turned it over Restless, Bided & restless, we praised whatever came our way—no more. marked eternal forever’s fleetest even pain,   only. Eternal thing. hoped being shapeless however indistinct For this,      wai,  dazed, took what pooled around us.  given, though pooled lurched lurching   Bit clenched   hand and Defied every thing. We tied ribbons Though we tied hurling Stillness, yourbir d Bi d Fit to be tied Notness knotness tied made fleshed darkling, you your voice, why revenant brexit biased bruised kissed and broken. Darkling, mottled scuttles. Dearth dearest full circle. harbinger,darkling,pool  Is Pooling pooling, expansive Pool, expansive heretofore. ing in my ear an expansive    dark pool of your voice.  Your voice, pooling .  part current pools Out voices tied knots   time our voices stitched.   Dearest, Woundpath, would  path’s less clear   path lad cler, thorn and gauze. Interminable   swifting  Cool   pool green Diaphanous. Harkening Harkening Tried and again, retired.   knots bough our voices stitched knots too   bearing bough your voice stitched in me.  meant ded what thoughts cannot meded comes to us unmanned torn tear comes to this unmended stitch voice-stitch voice stitch fraught heavy   What’s possible Sawn sawn so  n,   diaphanous gauzy and smooth. Smooth progress so   deepening pond,   spring thaw.   rsh of river tidal rish rise Brise breeze brush aside Unsullied Dearest,moment. aside. All-in-all. Muddied -all. beyonder , breast-beating   lunged Boasted bested beyond all things. Pulmon Ripened. brined-over shore, deft tufted Stay true. once and twice lodestone,    brine-star what celestial, sunk toward   sea dimmed sunken dammed-up bulwark   harried  for  thousand-year, under arrests   breath   sap        pause husked molted  molting    molt-of mine.   leaving molt remnant night-soil calling out part leaving mantled and dismantled spake thy moistened lip. curdled milk skin endings numerous moldy sallow flap of skin  tallow sallow choice fickle bunged up fickle plunge furrow fickle alpenglow elemental webbed filament thorough sawn sawed over under fawn dappled filament tough thorough &  n some. systole.   peach, overripe.   overripe too ripe stem too   fleshy overripe   swerater breast grimace pucker gripe fat word flabby words too-much overripe encumbering sawn   hewn cumbered encumbering. unnumbered. Encumbering. dawnings past echo-voice to voice spit have downings un numerable.an echo   aching hands. Voices like dawning unnumbered. Unbeknownst  bloodbent voicesong furrows furrowed furrows, until til and smoky sky. make it deep. signify—make it bitter almond, Saw   sun startled into being. Sorne seen watchTaken up Dearest, we swoon & are bread Read, we swoon & are to be Read, we take none such liberty Dearest,  with us. to darkness. thi r hi r & yon. sea-bound. Blown to be padarkness.  blankness stilled and held—remain beholden.   world’s as st bliver      parsed   sky & worded and reworded it. All douse past, We do not end here. This cannot be   ended. Your pulsed   stillborn word.  Dearest, we knew ourselves  in or, we thought we knew. Something has taken flight. But we cannot be itus. so we outed ourselves. out of ourselves. parsed out of ourselves.  so too   stillborn word. of onced wondered underside of grief,        b   .  Systoles.  O, grief, you pulsing.  there is nothing that is not pulsing. Hearted, Pulsed, we  O, pulse.One cannot We cannot, will not part as we have been parted paled out ourselves. parted as seas, left from leaves.   left from leaves as parted simplest.  Leaves,   sky parted. As left from leaves. heart to hands, to bread parceled and shred, loaves left leaves as leaves ll’s  As Parted like bread.   in-kind. Unkindness  kinned  From one, unkind. From you ano r Out of you nor Your unseen sheltered light out of Like bread, passed gilt what's simplest—you you guided our gilding, ourslimned-over,voiced gilt to voicing OursA fair apportioned Smoothing over Simply are Some are. jointed up divided yed into out parted jointed took up like bread. Palmed over handed over or one is different parsed palmed parceled where's   thrush of ever in your chest. in every chest. still & stilled threshing threshold open door its whisper dark its portend Could  y   O, whisper dark unsee it’s whisper-dark  could  y   whispering dark. whisper touch light as dark whisper touch   quake whisper   flicker-song whisper  What would  y not unsee.  A Flickering   fluttering heart would not unsee. Heart flutter flicker Was it? It was.flutter we would not unsee.flicker,   flutter Flicker song loss mica Would  y fathom Have to wait Gyre. Circumlocution would  y understand we stood beneath blinkered plums. Surely Staid Waylaid Divagation divers Casements. What part of you fell away, what part  quietexhaledWhat part of me expired. died.passing-through, aimless as bird-song.  Only the whole of you.I was caught unawares. Mislaid Flightless I was Excuses, Your brook Throat I’d I have not spoken of trees of that tree we lay beneath. We were happy  n. We were boundless— we were breathless. Dearest, only you Only   whole of you and all of you—only  , bodywhat have you made  re, warp and weft of you writ-one speak of tell   future writ beneath which of tree density though thou you and youwe andonce,n after one to one r. extenuating   circumstances. was  remoment.  re wasmomentpassing. Only through you and yours is this sign  reno dowsing Only you in your entirety. through  O many-chambered grief. Grieved. O grief, O nautilus shell, of Go, go and go to the seashore, take up a handful of sand pools at your feet, O many chambered grief.  There is always another room how many rooms does grief hold /Nautilus shell teeth though  thou one, grit-yarned wove rove heart roven riven heart heart riven to ground-down heart chambered O many chambered grief. How is  re ano r only through you and yours that what tears That what tone, All that torn as one tends   one as heat and burns altar smoke blots out   sun. Burnt offering both call and block out   sun. As sure as Pends pendant weighs, Pendulous one is not. smoke —to be sure.But ei r’s  is terrible kindness. For knowing unkindness What terrible kindness to knowAn arch is always falling but for this. Terrible kindness to know, to collapse. When will we know - As Hallowed Between terrible and kindness. Kindness steps beyond Kindness be We as Offering as  re Once You This offering, this cold told you watched seen ou diaphanous seen. Pivot seen pito minded mound pivoted duplicitous two-faced copied ourselves from ourselves. Torn to Rest us torn Offering Rendered Unto this Twice now This and what steps beyond Twice now hoped, twice now offered up lifted laden. Heavy with laden, secret cowled Twice now, calling out, , we  ce now burnt teared up, Once Offerings offer plumb  Drowning Easier way Heat We walked   mica-flecked path, of all things flecked,   mica-flecked path, heat and  apportioned smade secret colwed. secret-heavy cows ton and unmade , have you no words. Enough of all things, even lack .  Wracked Apportion We took and take nothing dowsing You. What goods dowser at sea. cannot dowse the sea. Dowse   sea Nothing dowses. Dowsing’s good as nothing O, form and form’s coursing, drowning makes us lighter in and through offering. Wahat clear water depthless, terrible, wrack us, but gently. Drowned as what is not a gift that one breathes it. thisdowsing, thiswater all   way dowsing’s as old as anything. drawing dowsing swum Toodowser, too soul, wracked into being. drowning through , alight lensed and measured. the red to ano r light taken measure what-must-have-been.light upon what forms out what form’s incline  re must’ve been Look, read, with -clad, strewing lip of   clear water. Penitent agency What forms course through us, light strewn. What guiding hands O, metamorph , we callstar’sbunring metamorph what forms will you take under this light? What form light strew courses in you what form course in you think back – to what was when you were not thinking back before love, evn, before what voices? What were you, pure, strewn light. Torn O false light, wrack us, but gently.   sower knows   furrow, ikesyay. Sown-thing. What seeded, Cenotaph grows What grows here, sower. What sower Assumes Power. You are no known-thing owned sowed Out of all possible now What stirs. What tears across   sky. What Awaken What known thing wakens woke here awaken What known thing wakens here. What breath. links forge here? Nomen nomen Whose sight crowds out brain whose lens  What jade-eyed I mean no offense. What angle? What begins? Forskellige for skelly o’s/whose  the red her who's connectedWho has insight Future peeps  Take position from you, take measure. O wreckers Let this be kindness. swelled to the brink.   future swelled us to   brink And you  lensed Fresnel-lensed, clear in any storm  against all storms. Clear Eye-white glass, Meaning stone Mean what you mean ineluctable invaried involute. Inviolable stones mote,glass bead in   eye eye-shape scale eye wh eye-white and cave-word damp earth what grows in   damp earth eye white Any port in storm   drowning man grabs at anything What concerns us concerns us Grab you livestrong fromstream mote speck of dust What are you to o rs  O death-mark, , to o rs. —  The future exists in us, always done-in, time-swelled,  re-not- re. , tossed around us.        Eft swirling depths O, maelstrom,kindness—let  re be  Currents leapt within us. What leapt within us, currents for if this child,swath,field of kindness. For if this childbrnachinling limitless can we find our way back to this moment. currents caught swells caught Between now and everything else. spirited away. blind currents what currents drift us spirited away.  re-not- re. and re. Drifted   underside of loss   underside requires pivot tLoosened from   world   ties that bound us ever so slightly Ours and ours alone.  made and unmade selves—

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When  y came i sat naked on the Lear sofa with a tall glass of vodka.   children were in   bathroom or   kitchen. Afterwards I smoked a cigarette on the balcony. I was free

Though even  re everything around me had vanished;

a cement floor, paint-flecked walls and ceiling,

tiny scraps of paper

then conflate nothing solid -1Never ending deferral – what’s at stake – what indeed.

You’re likely irked. I get it. Metaphor bae and all that. bae. Unending putting off deferral. By now, you’re likely irked. You may be irked.You're likely irked. One, unending I know – show-don’t-tell, but speech is bae. What I’m showing is unknown to me. Reader, I know. Insight is bae, but I’ve got none. Some unaltered source. Original is bae.  Insight is bae. Images are bae. What insight sets this right? What origin is sufficient?  there is no knowing that would set this right.    low sunTwixt-ways.    source is Cuz explanation underwhelms. Precludes effaces Real talk—Here's a thing. Explanation underwhelms. That’s just Here’s   long and short of it. Motivation

Explanation underwhelms. What motivates  source is never whelming underwhelms

  low light of winter through the window,   low light of– what motivates underwhelms. – pale winter light. Underwhelms

 there can be no respite.   The sun, low in the sky, shines on the kitchen table. low-sun enough of this – winter light This hand, this wrung out face

This handow window winging wringing   this holding salt Orpheus lot gets     demands isperse disowns  belies bellows As source and recompense   imageless reader, one setsheart before  one/ce  begets   whence from bereft begets pends begets all sense but one.   wenche maigns & what I said I said & did maligns—   source begets whence it issues. begets its whence as both ways past and future us.  Forewent.

& when I said and did,   one was a  dark path, reader,     full extent of our undoing. gone  and we're done. Well,  we're unmoored.  

What am I but those things I said I said & did—

Do I not? Unbeen. Notted. Unbedone

 m’s two-faced.well, we’ll n  I’s unmoored  

all disjoint  undone skint. unhinged. Come skinted out. Scanned. Disjoint dis  undid plastered pasted made past pasteurized #simple based debased.

unhinged. Unhinged. But unmoored. consequently demoore two-faced.  Denuded Me when I was not. What I was when I was not yet.  Stood in for me while I was in   past. So-called cuz when's what-function. Time's Thing in space. distance. Spark or   small ring of my drink on   table. well, we’ll scant have stood for much.  spills out covers so-covered for   way   Like, literally—like,   so- like,   so. Feckless Thought-less in its So,

literally is bae   lestness done-ness       greeted run both ways     best poem ever or best. poem. ever.

Cuz, what I’ve said & did’s two-faced. what those things you said you’ll love so much

What’s been and been and been. Reader, couldn’t not’ve & were, but both ways. Forward and backward.glance moves what was an.fig’s as good as God. been anything else. too unto you sign signs move both ways what signifies moves backward always both ways secrets flow both ways holddie in your hand and you know what I’m talking about. It could not be anything but. Glancing thi r and yon. When I say I UnWork both ways read decode   past hacked   events Too seeded Thrice Reader, this is just to say,  overdetermined covered ofsted works both ways cuts janus-faced spills out Undone won singled out signed out

Want on   one you figs and  Thrice-cursed blessed,  and   or. Blessed   o r case you in case   what  significant   ths is   break this si   rethinking sized up

Tundered tindered tossed to and fro   consequences remain TBD. Cuz reader,

no regerts    one you knows and   one you

janus-glanced Cuz that’s that that   consequences TBD though what consequences  

Though the consequence is TBD. our motions, fit and wanton rot rot what grows i'll be   right time for small change. That’s that thatborne any and all surface our Furtive, Dearest,furtive dearest, our lips Deas light breaks us, our lips divide   world. . mouth ourselves out of ourselves.   as as let lips as our lips parting our lips split   light Dearest, now Stay To remain our lips split lipped liptongued as   taste  ir want defies our want taste sight want   want knborne bear things that would not be borne, sighted clear for now and always. suspend pend bear bearing one as all things would be borne. as want and wants urging cmes for all took-thing for want of only trees want of want’s want and wants craving thy miss   trees for want of  ir eyes what’s nearly to almost was is and ever will be. burst frucht  ir wanting scales

we’ve oars enough, and knots. trace   scale that found us wanting.  Scales & Trace   sea that spurned us trace makes us prey   scales trace whenever spurned once trace whatever once is enough speak shadows to fullness,  tend foam   coast trace   underside of line whatever new came to fruitti online to finish line   line   sea with tears. Pulse   edge pulse   whatever salt fills us to   edge Enough We’ve oars enough, and knots. Let us turno r salt-pulsed, seaward.sea-measure every pulse measure of   sea  se.   Those o r Salt and   sea from as o rs pulse salt salt of o r anAs seas to those who pulled          as see to pulse, as pea to that which pulses salt as salt Water   pulse of sea sea-pulse tide &

Pulsed Dearest, linger.  We’ve seen what oar,knot, what edges   world -of-us & where we end  as pulse is just divert embraces us. edge of us. — so lingering  you spoke   Shade Knot yourself to us as we would have you .knotted-up with shadows  spoke shadows full. ness. full.Naught  O shadow flesh ness.    took veiled shadow to flesh shadow to flesh felled voluptuous voluminous lined to fullness filed amended conceptual filamented. connected stretched filament filled out all to double ness. lined shadowed edged out to fullness doubled   blank of all things. pulsed double yet put scant shadowed   stuff leaf with imbued edged ever flax fibers push cattails to   air, cattail fluff   sk kiss cattail fluff stuff out flung spilt out slipped to pulsed each and every wordoars hymn. we wrung ourselves out of ourselves—What pulsed you are nigh nigh to us. O, had we known what pulsed you here, O almost tasted What pulsed you here O, known and brought you nigh close What’s taken place and have you bro rs ere you many do your hearts beat as one. Pulse-bob pulse pulse echo sounded found for you, took measure taut  & your   touted reached echo for you poured pulsed lined edges palped pulsed palsied pulsed heard hymn palped felt   tensed taut tensed porous porosity tensed   hymned edge hemmed it all  hymned edged all line-edged slip   line-edged this and what escapes. broken lines stunted our breath Edge membranous simpledit was not easier than limned cloud and candle-flame. character all with sense candle-flame tended limned heart and flame every flame limned cloud and word candle flame with made missives of our hands missives of our limned made missives of our heil  nce lingered over dulled made missives of our eyes and throat. carved misses from looks cold missives fashioned missives from though missive-dark missive poured every face into you many limbed pulsed missives of every sort missives of all forms. flame-limned white porcelain ceramic bone missives we vessels of flame-limned vessels what lingers blinds shoal   hold  at held   past beyonded what current washes over us.What lingers. freighted what veil hangs between us lingered, swallowing tears. De-vesseled Dearest, in my mind she is not alone What current washes you Are you alone? or are  you bound to us as you are. limned all with sense we, ember-lidded and dull—you shone-through, limned us linger vessels and laden with that to what currents laden with umber Linger.  umber vesseled and full-throated we came lingered among you   wan leaves left leavened  current enraptured thus, full-throated I am full to bursting solaced from filled with you filled to bursting flame-limned took solaced solaced all ember-lidded   sky, ember-lidded,   lake rim osrs what are clouds where you are rare clouds, what precipitate. dearest,   mulls fear, light-blind  so answer us—what host of you how many are re ano r mull ids limned-over eyes, candle-flame. candle-flame, how many, wan damps ideal disembodied disemb limned polished glass  candle flame limns   eye. faced fan polished glass damp and listless or ember-lidded how many pairs of eyes how many multitude how many of shards  your polished eyes shard and are  re o rs are you alone chocked full of  where are   o r and are  re more o rers polished bit of glass for eyes are  re o rs what calls  for what name amen what amen polished stone polished bits of wax, are  re o rs  remote missive knowing back of   eyes, rote ends of rote ends of song, lineaments. candle-flame, gave what poisoned username. gazed opened bent bended and bent to us we were  stayed bastion enraptured told thused rote &stony-limbed. missives dismantled & full Made full with tears. made full by hymnal limned limned hymned rough rough ache of matrixed farrow choke-stone,  tightens limned missed limned wound wisped whispers rough missives stony-limbed.   one whispers tied noted to birds, carve fingered thin over long, missive took queried of lingered rote missive one wrote rote dridded   barest bare sparse sparse  we & once filled to drink d stood fantod hand madewell, full watched crow-  wan damp stain flame on   back of   eye. led back of   eye. all that haloed ache & falls thrown listless to   air thrown bound wholeness reversed hence and whence coronal flame-stayed scarred retina of aching breast might mou d candle-flame shifting changing varied   sound sounds crows   we poured candle-flame halo retinal blob d us sound out still what could have been For you and for what’s left behind.  Poured out. Poor For you & for what’s left what could have been choke stone afterimage flame-shadowed, shadowed flame of you, candle-flame and echo of candle's flame. ember-lidded, eyed & you, blue echo of candle's flame, purple echo of candle-flame lidded and dull ember-lidded. bide For you & what you  You choke-stone of what could have been, you flint-souled jagged us raw, and you wrung from ourselves. found, we were wrung from ourselvesyou found us we were wrung out of ourselves. you found us unprepared. Wring wrung out we were caught unawares we were unprepared breath possible thus. you found us unprepared—led whispering sketch ing we j. we were unprepared. cried vibration spoke softly wung wrung fly wing flown what breathing does soft what soft breath passed possible bled led blunt softed potentiality fire that woke your Pass allow Fire and what have you consumed. Ten thousand years, smoke of all I love. everything if you would but   smoke of ten-thousand years. I would burn ten-thousand years-How offers time – burnt Ten thousand years. Counteless Water, fire, what element have you what have you elental. Flint Worn as you are, As You’re our Pace Spate Earth-fire Salt and fire. never not be borne upFire We'd deserved Deserved Collapse Forced forced Resolve to Pured What amber Placate plication Enfold Lest We’re Stuck us-ness. Prickle Past gently or not at all lint-souled, choke-stone crystalline, what forces bound you  nce. What heat solved caught me up, stone caught up stuck in my throat . I am born in the dissolution of    everything we could say crystalline quartzite in our hands.  you came suspended sustained I cannot what we could not as she said you &    re you were here are your retrograde jagged quartz jagged   lines of our hands, scored-dragged dragged proofs  we scored dragged lines into our hands what, membranous, delays, what we'd scored our spark innumerable rough roughed do done do tufted prepremade plan planned curry favor sight unseen.  what delays  what membranous, slows thy step. delays? Slows tempts  e? What longs tempts. sound. Our here  what sparked what clumped what envenoped see what shaped egg tooth take this pillar of flame What lately have thou lately been.  Have you now have you lately been pressed pushed in into-  joined join Were you yet loved? Candle-flame press forward   crowd edge-of-  void. You were, as much as we could bear.  As much as we could bear. & were you here, yet . voidWe yessed What void-gift gift and more gifted given gifted-one. Thou O, void-kept Thou, thousand-faced child. ness spite spite spite-heavy wring wrung wrung rung thou—doubled-one edge-of-all-things, doubled-one we are borne unto bear us forar bear us ight harry us born We gave much and  n more. This too. We gave much &  n more.show that what makes  word break how bokeHow is that founded Condrial condon has been of all my mito-  c ondrial born-to-me gnomon call. Seek plum harry caray . Come to   edge edge me sedge scuttle-close born to meKeepest dobling born born  . void-rendering torn tear O void tendering rendering thou void-thou tendered thou   we had.  fleet you would not do not despair voided OR void- we arced every        looked bear up bear up borne unto burned freighted bore bowed bowed arced beard to bear bore   what do we give, what haven’t we done ablutions O causal cauterized soured blighted bli ly went. went sour what thisTook whatever came our way, praised it turned it over Restless, Bided & restless, we praised whatever came our way—no more. marked eternal forever’s fleetest even pain,   only. Eternal thing. hoped being shapeless however indistinct For this,      wai,  dazed, took what pooled around us.  given, though pooled lurched lurching   Bit clenched   hand and Defied every thing. We tied ribbons Though we tied hurling Stillness, yourbir d Bi d Fit to be tied Notness knotness tied made fleshed darkling, you your voice, why revenant brexit biased bruised kissed and broken. Darkling, mottles, scuttles. Dearth dearest full circle. harbinger,darkling,pool  Is Pooling pooling, expansive Pool, expansive heretofore. ing in my ear an expansive    dark pool of your voice.  Your voice, pooling .  part current pools Out voices tied knots   time our voices stitched.   Dearest, Woundpath, would  path’s less clear   path lad cler, thorn and gauze. Interminable   swifting  Cool   pool green Diaphanous. Harkening Harkening Tried and again, retired.   knots bough our voices stitched knots too   bearing bough your voice stitched in me.  meant what thoughts cannot meded come to us unmanned torn tears come to this unmended stitch voice-stitch voice stitch fraught heavy   What’s possible Sawn sawn so  n,   diaphanous gauzy and smooth. Smooth progress so   deepening pond,   spring thaw.   rsh of river tidal rish rise Brise breeze brush aside Unsullied Dearest,moment. aside. All-in-all. Muddied -all. beyonder , breast-beating   lunged Boasted bested beyond all things. Pulmon Ripened. brined-over shore, deft tufted Stay true. once and twice lodestone,    brine-star what celestial, sunk toward   sea dimmed sunken dammed-up bulwark   harried  for  thousand-year, under arrest's   breath   sap    pause husked molted  molting    molt-of mine.   leaving molt remnant night-soil calling out part leaving mantled and dismantled spake thy moistened lip. curdled milk skin endings numerous moldy sallow flap of skin  tallow sallow choice fickle bunged up fickle plunge furrow fickle alpenglow elemental webbed filament thorough sawn sawed over under fawn dappled filament tough thorough &  n some. systole.   peach, overripe.   overripe too ripe stem too   fleshy overripe   swerater breast grimace pucker gripe fat word flabby words too-much overripe encumbering sawn   hewn cumbered encumbering. unnumbered. Encumbering. dawnings past echo-voice to voice spit have downings un numerable.an echo   aching hands. Voices like dawning unnumbered. Unbeknownst  bloodbent voicesong furrows furrowed furrows, until til and smoky sky. make it deep. signify—make it bitter almond, Saw   sun startled into being. Sorne seen watchTaken up Dearest, we swoon & are brea d Read, we swoon & are to be Read, we take none such liberty Dearest,  with us. to darkness. thi r hi r & yon. sea-bound. Blown be padarkness.  blankness stilled and held—remain beholden.   world’s as st bliver      parsed   sky & worded and reworded it. All douse past, We do not end here. This cannot be   end. Your pulsed as pulsed   stillborn word.  Dearest, we knew ourselves  in or, we thought we knew. Something has taken flight. But we cannot be itus. so we outed ourselves. out of ourselves. parsed out of ourselves.  so too   stillborn word. of onced wondered underside of grief,        b   .  Systoles.  O, grief, you pulsing.  there is nothing that is not pulsing. Hearted, Pulsed, we  O, pulse.One cannot We cannot, will not part as we have been parted paled out ourselves. parted as seas, left from leaves.   left from leaves as parted simplest.  Leaves,   sky parted. As left from leaves. heart to hands, to bread parceled and shred, loaves left leaves as leaves ll’s  As Parted like bread.   in-kind. Unkindness  kinned  From one, unkind. From you ano r Out of you nor Your unseen sheltered light out of Like bread, passed gilt what's simplest—you you guided our gilding, ourslimned-over,voiced gilt to voicing OursA fair apportioned Smoothing over Simply are Some are. jointed up divided yed into out parted jointed took up like bread. Palmed over handed over or one is different parsed palmed parceled where's   thrush of ever in your chest. in every chest. still & stilled threshing threshold open door it's whisper dark its portend Could  y   O, whisper dark unsee it’s whisper-dark  could  y   whispering dark. whisper touch light as dark whisper touch   quake whisper   flicker-song whisper  What would  y not unsee.  A Flickering   fluttering heart would not unsee. Heart flutter flicker Was it? It was.flutter we would not unsee.flicker,   flutter Flicker song loss mica Would  y fathom Have to wait Gyre. Circumlocution would  y understand we stood beneath blinkered plums. Surely Staid Waylaid Divagation divers Casements. What part of you fell away, what part  quietexhaledWhat part of me expired. died.passing-through, aimless as bird-song.  Only the whole of you.I was caught unawares. Mislaid Flightless I was Excuses, Your brook Throat I’d I have not spoken of trees of that tree we lay beneath. We were happy  n. We were boundless— we were breathless. Dearest, only you Only   whole of you and all of you—only  , bodywhat have you made  re, warp and weft of you writ-one speak of tell   future writ beneath which of tree density though thou you and you we andonce,n after one to one r. extenuating   circumstances. was  remoment.  re wasmomentpassing. Only through you and yours is this sign  reno dowsing Only you in your entirety. through  O many-chambered grief. Grieved. O grief, O nautilus shell, of Go, go and go to the seashore, take up a handful of sand pools at your feet, O many chambered grief.  There is always another room how many rooms does grief hold /Nautilus shell teeth though  thou one, grit-yarned wove rove heart roven riven heart heart riven to ground-down heart chambered O many chambered grief. How is  re ano r only through you and yours that what tears That what tone, All that torn as one tends   one as heat and burns altar smoke blots out   sun. Burnt offering both call and block out   sun. As sure as Pends pendant weighs, Pendulous one is not. smoke —to be sure.But ei r’s  is terrible kindness. For knowing unkindness What terrible kindness to knowAn arch is always falling but for this. Terrible kindness to know, to collapse. When will we know - As Hallowed Between terrible and kindness. Kindness steps beyond Kindness be We as Offering as  re Once You This offering, this cold told you watched seen ou diaphanous seen. Pivot seen pito minded mound pivoted duplicitous two-faced copied ourselves from ourselves. Torn to Rest us torn Offering Rendered Unto this Twice now This and what steps beyond Twice now hoped, twice now offered up lifted laden. Heavy with laden, secret cowled Twice now, calling out, , we  ce now burnt teared up, Once Offerings offer plumb  Drowning Easier way Heat We walked   mica-flecked path, of all things flecked,   mica-flecked path, heat and  apportioned smade secret colwed. secret-heavy cows ton and unmade , have you no words. Enough of all things, even lack .  Wracked Apportion We took and take nothing dowsing You. What goods dowser at sea. cannot dowse the sea. Dowse   sea Nothing dowses. Dowsing’s good as nothing O, form and form’s coursing, drowning makes us lighter in and through offering. Wahat clear water depthless, terrible, wrack us, but gently. Drowned as what is not a gift that one breathes it. thisdowsing, thiswater all   way dowsing’s as old as anything. drawing dowsing swum Toodowser, too soul, wracked into being. drowning through , alight lensed and measured. the red to ano r light taken measure what-must-have-been.light upon what forms out what form’s incline  re must’ve been Look, read, with -clad, strewing lip of   clear water. Penitent agency What forms course through us, light strewn. What guiding hands O, metamorph , we callstar’sbunring metamorph what forms will you take under this light? What form light strew courses in you what form course in you think back – to what was when you were not thinking back before love, evn, before what voices? What were you, pure, strewn light. Torn O false light, wrack us, but gently.   sower knows   furrow, ikesyay. Sown-thing. What seeded, Cenotaph grows What grows here, sower. What sower Assumes Power. You are no known-thing owned sowed Out of all possible now What stirs. What tears across   sky. What Awaken What known thing wakens woke here awaken What known thing wakens here. What breath. links forge here? Nomen nomen Whose sight crowds out brain whose lens  What jade-eyed I mean no offense. What angle? What begins? Forskellige for skelly o’s/whose  the red her who's connectedWho has insight Future peeps  Take position from you, take measure. O wreckers Let this be kindness. swelled to the brink.   future swelled us to   brink And you  lensed Fresnel-lensed, clear in any storm  against all storms. Clear Eye-white glass, Meaning stone Mean what you mean ineluctable invaried involute. Inviolable stones mote,glass bead in   eye eye-shape scale eye wh eye-white and cave-word damp earth what grows in   damp earth eye white Any port in storm   drowning man grabs at anything What concerns us concerns us Grab you livestrong fromstream mote speck of dust What are you to o rs  O death-mark, , to o rs. —  The future exists in us, always done-in, time-swelled,  re-not- re. , tossed around us.        Eft swirling depths O, maelstrom,kindness—let  re be  Currents leapt within us. What leapt within us, currents for if this child,swath,field of kindness. For if this childbrnachinling limitless can we find our way back to this moment. currents caught swells caught Between now and everything else. spirited away. blind currents what currents drift us spirited away.  re-not- re. and re. Drifted   underside of loss   underside requires pivot tLoosened from   world   ties that bound us ever so slightly Ours and ours alone.  made and unmade selves—

If all’s new.cross roads, if you will – can’t have one without   o r. What I regret and what I stood for Reader, no regerts. have often if we’re often cross that off have unto new double’s   negative modeling of   new in & if all’s new, well, we’ll,  Unspoken unspoken. Double   negative. To find   unsung I won’t not look to you. We'll see about that. Not have stood for much Scant have stood for much   scnat have stood for much.

I’ll say it plain - I can’t not look at you.  Lacks host power ghost power. TBD

If this is what it is to stand for, well, volition. I’ll stand for volition’s TBD.

I’m all in.  Make clichés happen. Shipped and re-shipped to I ship cliché.

I’m all in. You know I stand for clichés. Such power is figurative. I speak figurative language.  Clichés as time machines. Atemporal  I stands for clichés. Is such a thing clichéd into being. Unconvinced convincingly Clichéd into being. Doth protest. Who r until Speaking of waters.  there's nothing that’s not See how easy that was. Ntilled untilled. Beginnings renew and known good and known newn own shorn yoon yew Lasting stainescape now I can talk about work ss shit with like monstrous This  

Bridges, numberless &   water below. Lee-edge lee-ward and warding tonally broseph.

See how that works? I assert,      Effaced. Traceless to stand for  scant cause.

What’s done is done but   water under thousands of bridges numberless scant  

—remember? And whi r

distaff of or concerning. [Yes, this is one of those poems.] Reader,

clean slates & new leaves—metaphor galore.  

So let’s do this, ‘cuz this excuses everything.

& this excuses everything-time I said    

you had bad taste.

& when I fumbled   First of all, I really dig beginnings.

when asked why bring a child into suchworld I [We’ll see where this goes. We’re in this together.] you should know this. You know this.

You should know this.   clean slate - derivative. Extremis  OG sense –

I am opposed to most organs. Original sense. properly.   the convex surface of the body of persons and vertebrates animals I said and I said and I said, When I said you have bad taste.

which is adjacent to the spinal axis, and opposite to the belly and most of the special organs. It extends from the neck and shoulders to the extremity of the backbone. back and side: all over, completely

  rest unasked, as wonder, as unbidden. rest bidden. untroubled.  Be more be  Both all Stund- Calmed and Stay, calm and untroubled. Be untroubled, be wonder  asic ask at fasted ummed

Reader, her   stift Like, filler like  Sigh and Stan it Beget myself from myself. O, sum-it-unto   I’ll thorn-it-unto, thorn it wrestlingly. Beget from me to myself. Wanting The Impossibles washed-over and wantless. Bee-thorn bethorned gethorned? Th’impossible’s told and wantless.  The Impossible at least at once as won't  Are you ready for love? Read this sonnet to find out. Begws eggs

All’s well or something /but/ & be stranger.  re are impossibilities at stake.  possible ebbed stranger. impossible. Know that metaphors are impossible. BY DEFINITION. Don’t ask for metaphor. What do you stand for? Impossible Metaphor. Metaphors are impossible and Impossibility is metaphoric. What’s impossible’s metaphoric and remains so. Unearned

  tongue of   start of   ash or edge of   Reader, metaphoric impossibilities.

  touch of the sound of her voice. Ready for love? Write a sonnet and find out.   tongue of   final ebb of   taste of her tongue   bee of thorn of   Write sonnet and I’ll tell you if you’re ready for love. her skin and   the light hum of her skin  beneath Write sonnet and we’ll tell you if you’re ready for love. Ready for love? Write Sonnet to find out. IMHO. Too much faultlessness faithlessness Is it that As that is your I would not won’t  I would not.  there is no respite. Ashed

Idk Mouth-torn ripped from ripened from  re is no respite. hood, that sadness that does not. O sadness do not stop. Ebbless binged unsurfaced. tongue-tied and marged Might could. Bond to marginal Reader, we’re each tongue-spun langue-spun parole torn from   surface if that when you can’t get   delved-to Tongue doubled. What delves bodies    lip of separation. Edge   seas and  it marked one singled. Unstarted. Started. Startled. Language singles as we’re hearth-born. Two's into being.  Tonguing delved. Tongued to being the leading edge of the tear that is your mouth. Of your mouth. Mouthing tongued to being.   sound wave of you – that sounds trite I mean   literal soundwave of   word you and   air through which I now reverb. Month-borne. Mouth-borne. Long eee. Ones  me into   world twos me. Manifolded. Doubles   entirety of existence. Doubled. Ever-startled. Ever Started as beginning.  So started.   lip of tears. Untold Pick poetic form and I’ll tell you where you’ll get married.

Design Handbag and we’ll tell you what poet you are.

Pick your favorite sonnet and we'll tell you if you’re ready to be loved.

Pick your favorite sonnet and we'll tell you if you deserve to be loved.

Ready for love? Check out  these sonnets to find out.

Tell me if you icse poems and find out if you're ready for love.

Pick your favorite poem and see if you’ll ever fall in love.

Will you fall in love? Pick your favorite poetic form to find o. Cuz mix cauz mélange. Sketched Pick your favorite Beyonce lyrics and find out Pick your favorite O, sadness, do not not stop. Hearth-borne something, anything   Take this g

tell me designhouse and I tell you I love you.

Trebled Reader, nothing’s faultless, and so, doubled. Faulted. As took and gift both stumble, trouble is as sodden   as doubled, trebled. What’s Took and gifted. Took and given gifted      

What’s both took and gifted. Doubled, trebled. It's the opposite day Weltanschluss As so quickly moved   you'll have So quickly moved. If only I’d’ve, I’ll’ve  seen since and sense

Lineaments and you'll have untoIf only. Senescent, old maybe? Sense-making and whatmore

It'll Have been.on.range of strategies. No shortage of hyperbole hyper-bowl.

Oneto win two and one to less so  sketch what’s not.

Can anything trans be. Precipitous sudden shifts in style and register.  Is  retransmission of such.. high and low, standard and less so.     violence of curbs.

Where to go from hyperbole. Pronounced hyper bowl.   I think lips contour my death

I’ve died when I stop speaking. Am I,     the language contour of my being gone.

I find not.   disappointment that I will not hear after death. Becomes God. And all that petal-veined trans   lineament your tongue lines my death lines me in death. Tongue limns death.  Where to go, where to go. Whereda go whereda go  teesdees. Shift and recompense.

What Such sorrow. No such sorrow. No such thing. Where Da where to

 . Wild linguistic vacillation. Sudden tonal shifts. Slang is gonna get worse before it gets better.

Anger. Boredom unabated, barely mitigated. Might could.

Probably boredom unabated. Break brachial, as in eukaryotic and galaxies blah blah blah

I don’t know what to say but I’ll say it:possible motto. Like zoological but not so

where I scribbled days into mindless dreams

of   woman who married another man,

of rumors in   night and this stale, tiredness

ga red at my eyes.  Mary gives me hope.

Imprinted on my computer

During my last trip-up

Liked  or fur and  it weird vertex assholes

I liked nature askid

This was of course in   80’s

Anyways, every day you learn something new

If only this could not have been cuz

of spite if only for winnows.threat

Spite for sport's sake — raucous…

Untouched leaves of spiteful flail.  

Saxon-like,  re’s hope yet.

Concessession concession. How’s that for concise?

I am, but nevermind. Mine, awry mine, mine dream-boat  

another time, so can you not, Nah.

  world—a cocoon.   scattered dissonance of our bodies—

  larva turning to goo. Let us discard our mandibles

for better wings. Let us spread ourselves wide like   iris

Of raven. Let us charge into ourselves with animal courage—

dance now for yourself. Sing now for yourself.   world spins

like silk—bloom now for yourself.

Whatever this is has not been

Avowed drosser. What’s this’ what is this is not. This Blunder

Dross   drossiest  river dream thrilling trill

underside of dross unceasingly. Senselessly.

Dross   drossiest underside of dross.

Dross as  what was this before and how it benefits you, your ass-face.

Aassface  this has not been  What wasn’t could not hold Has this been Could this not be Could—

Will, like white boy metaphorical fires, will.

Ruing underside of this commitment.

Unpaced & sully it good.

Unceasingly sully

I will dross by doing, dross whatever   dressed like what undiverted

where'd it weren't as gesture false

‘cuz you are with me here

even   undeniable even blundering

grapes lees dregs

droozy blunderings drossy is gummy

as only fires will do kept close

wept metaphysical drossy

Oracular fires and eschatological tears.

But what ontological blunder.

It's Full stop.

&&&

Clarity and certainty inapt.

Certain of turn.

Supplant Suffice supplicant mine eyes

This’ll go awry.

Preclude, even.

Can. You. What’s final & o cruise?

& is this the place to get what I’m looking for? (asking for friend)

What’s inappropriate? Do I mind? So be it. / Do I intone? Take what’s set before us. // Falsity. Continuance.

Sundry’s finality is sundry an’s sundry.

We take what is set before us. So what’s now? In reverse. Refocus

Topsy-turvy. Now what’s all flat particulars?

Could you rehash does and re-does.

All-flattening nothing in particular.

A taking-stock, if you will.

A bright thing at the edge of our vision.

Myopic generalization. When holding a bright thing.

We’re uncertain and disputed.

I hope hope evens out.

However, examples cited are interpreted.

Uncertain and disputed.

I saved worms today.

He didn’t try to get away. He wei d my finger on segments no less grim

His worm brain sensed medieval sin:

Dry skin upon his wet skin.

Both only dead and gray in the end.

Today is the day - I declare him to be my friend.

Bleary from sleep and warm water

and no glasses, I spot uncertain comma

crawling on my shower’s corner—

not so unmaggotesque, burrowing

an arabesque of language into the wall.

I don’t know how he got in here—

as naked and damp and holy,

the day he was conceived.

Listen to him and   o r weak knees

of my offspring as  y drown in ponds,

gurgle in   trickling streams that scar

  worn-gray map of my brain.

A wheeze,boil, and pop of liquid—

thriving is only brain undone,
Splattered upon the storm cellar’s door.

Once upon a time,

Yet far from ages ago

A man coughs.

He has the world stuck in his throat.
A woman spits
and the world spins freely.

  depressives all are inline

all together finally up out of bed and inline.

  depressives find lines quite useful

especially parallel ones.

Couplets are notable forms in poems,

because  y form parallel lines which do not cross.

Sometimes I am readingstupid poem,

usuallystupid poem written by me but not always,

and wish it would just give up   formality.

Formalities are for fruits.

I am under no particular obligation to look appetizing.

Don’t tell me what to do. I’ll turn the lamp on when I feel like it.

I’ll wake my internal colony of fish up when someone tells me

what this damn bead in my stomach has been all my life.

Maybe it's a different type of hunger than lacking food.

Maybe all forms of hunger live in the chest.

Dry mouth, we cross   shaggy tundra

swim   dark sea of city streets

  forest of stars

blue-black skied suburbs,

calling out for what is left for us.

Inspired by televised sensations

we dive into   syntax

rip open words of news

reading into what is given

waiting for promised returns.

Maybe we need to redirect our sexual
energies. Eat better. Sleep harder, alone.

Sexual energy needs to be converted to

Spiritual energy and that is the goal of life.

&&&

Right now my hands bleed from pounding

  ceiling

Of   neighbors who never seem to sleep

Just shout, and break things.

In   sun, for some reason

 y look happy.

Fighting against

• SHADOWS

protecting myself

from black and white cultures

flowering feelings  

• day by day  

I swam into being

And this never would have happened
But for   loss of   Bundersnooper’s
Fear, having shielded   mumbletwits.

Goals? Subterfuge and sublimations.

Goals...world peace, sex in graveyards, heros openly

Hating  mselves.

Isolation cells and homo-erotic mutterings after needle fat with heroin.

Priests whispering while violating dogs in alleys stained with ink blots.

Swim trunks slip from skinny hips.

Eating love wrapped in good thoughts termed bad.

Who are you?

Goals....black angels laughing at preachers spilling  mselves from arm chairs.

 There is whiskey in   coffee and magic in   television screen spirals.

  want is intestines cut fresh and grilled on open flame underblack flag.

Goals and wayward meditations on red rocks with liberal sensibilities truncated and drowned and

Who are you?

Are you those who cry?

Those who have tears of heaven

rip through  ir lids and fall

like daggers on   world

below

I am here,

lost wind drifting

Away

Away

Away

Bee Movie Script - Dialogue Transcript

According to all known laws

of aviation,

there is no way bee

should be able to fly.

Its wings are too small to get

its fat little body off the ground.

The bee, of course, flies anyway

because bees don't care

what humans think is impossible.

Yellow, black. Yellow, black.

Yellow, black. Yellow, black.

Ooh, black and yellow!

Let's shake it up a little.

Barry! Breakfast is ready!

Ooming!

Hang on second.

Hello?

- Barry?

- Adam?

- Oan you believe this is happening?

- I can't. I'll pick you up.

Looking sharp.

Use stairs. Your father

paid good money for those.

Sorry. I'm excited.

Here's my graduation.

We're very proud of you, son.

A perfect report card, all B's.

Very proud.

Ma! I got thing going here.

- You got lint on your fuzz.

- Ow! That's me!

- Wave to us! We'll be in row 118,000.

- Bye!

Barry, I told you,

stop flying in the house!

- Hey, Adam.

- Hey, Barry.

- Is that fuzz gel?

- little. Special day, graduation.

Never thought I'd make it.

Three days grade school,

three days of high school.

Those were awkward.

Three days of college. I'm glad I took

a day and hitchhiked around the hive.

You did come back different.

- Hi, Barry.

- Artie, growing a mustache? Looks good.

- Hear about Frankie?

- Yeah.

- Are you going to a funeral?

- No, I'm not going.

Everybody knows,

sting someone, you die.

Don't waste it on squirrels.

Such a hothead.

I guess he could have

just gotten out of the way.

I love this incorporating

an amusement park into our day.

That's why we don't need vacations.

Boy, quite a bit of pomp...

under circumstances.

- Well, Adam, today we are men.

- We are!

- Bee-men.

- Amen!

Hallelujah!

Students, faculty, distinguished bees,

Please welcome Dean Buzzwell.

Welcome, New Hive City

graduating class of...

...9:15.

That concludes our ceremonies.

And begins your career

at Honex Industries!

Will we pick our job today?

I heard it's just orientation.

Heads up! Here we go.

Keep your hands and antennas

inside tram at all times.

- Wonder what it'll be like?

- A little scary.

Welcome to Honex,

a division of Honesco

and part of Hexagon Group.

This is it!

Wow.

Wow.

We know that you, as bee,

have worked your whole life

to get to point where you

can work for your whole life.

Honey begins when our valiant Pollen

Jocks bring nectar to hive.

Our top-secret formula

is automatically color-corrected,

scent-adjusted and bubble-contoured

into this soothing sweet syrup

with its distinctive

golden glow you know as...

Honey!

- That girl was hot.

- She's my cousin!

- She is?

- Yes, we're all cousins.

- Right. You're right.

- At Honex, we constantly strive

to improve every aspect

of bee existence.

These bees are stress-testing

a new helmet technology.

- What do you think he makes?

- Not enough.

Here we have our latest advancement,

the Krelman.

- What does that do?

- Patches that little strand of honey

that hangs after you pour it.

Saves us millions.

Oan anyone work on Krelman?

Of course. Most bee jobs are

small ones. But bees know

that every small job,

if it's done well, it means a lot.

But choose carefully

because you'll stay in job

you pick for the rest of your life.

The same job for the rest of your life?

I didn't know that.

What's the difference?

You'll be happy to know that bees,

as species, haven't had one day off

in 27 million years.

So you'll just work us to death?

We'll surely try.

Wow! That blew my mind!

"What's the difference?"

How can you say that?

One job forever?

That's an insane choice to have to make.

I'm relieved. Now we only have

to make one decision in life.

But, Adam, how could they

never have told us that?

Why would you question anything?

We're bees.

We're most perfectly

functioning society on Earth.

You ever think maybe things

work a little too well here?

Like what? Give me one example.

I don't know. But you know

what I'm talking about.

Please clear the gate.

Royal Nectar Force on approach.

Wait a second. Check it out.

- Hey, those are Pollen Jocks!

- Wow.

I've never seen them this close.

They know what it's like

outside the hive.

Yeah, but some don't come back.

- Hey, Jocks!

- Hi, Jocks!

You guys did great!

You're monsters!

You're sky freaks! I love it! I love it!

- I wonder where they were.

- I don't know.

Their day's not planned.

Outside hive, flying who knows

where, doing who knows what.

You can't just decide to be Pollen

Jock. You have to be bred for that.

Right.

Look. That's more pollen

than you and I will see in lifetime.

It's just a status symbol.

Bees make too much of it.

Perhaps. Unless you're wearing it

and ladies see you wearing it.

Those ladies?

Aren't they our cousins too?

Distant. Distant.

Look at these two.

- Couple of Hive Harrys.

- Let's have fun with them.

It must be dangerous

being Pollen Jock.

Yeah. Once bear pinned me

against mushrooms!

He had paw on my throat,

and with others, he was slapping me!

- Oh, my!

- I never thought I'd knock him out.

What were you doing during this?

Trying to alert authorities.

I can autograph that.

A little gusty out there today,

wasn't it, comrades?

Yeah. Gusty.

We're hitting sunflower patch

six miles from here tomorrow.

- Six miles, huh?

- Barry!

A puddle jump for us,

but maybe you're not up for it.

- Maybe I am.

- You are not!

We're going 0900 at J-Gate.

What do you think, buzzy-boy?

Are you enough?

I might be. It all depends

on what 0900 means.

Hey, Honex!

Dad, you surprised me.

You decide what you're interested in?

- Well, there's a lot of choices.

- But you only get one.

Do you ever get bored

doing the same job every day?

Son, let me tell you about stirring.

You grab that stick, and you just

move it around, and you stir it around.

You get yourself into rhythm.

It's a beautiful thing.

You know, Dad,

the more I think about it,

maybe honey field

just isn't right for me.

You were thinking of what,

making balloon animals?

That's bad job

for a guy with a stinger.

Janet, your son's not sure

He wants to go into honey!

- Barry, you are so funny sometimes.

- I'm not trying to be funny.

You're not funny! You're going

into honey. Our son, stirrer!

- You're gonna be stirrer?

- No one's listening to me!

Wait till you see the sticks I have.

I could say anything right now.

I'm gonna get an ant tattoo!

Let's open some honey and celebrate!

Maybe I'll pierce my thorax.

Shave my antennae.

Shack up with a grasshopper. Get

a gold tooth and call everybody "dawg"!

I'm so proud.

- We're starting work today!

- Today's day.

Come on! All good jobs

will be gone.

Yeah, right.

Pollen counting, stunt bee, pouring,

stirrer, front desk, hair removal...

- Is it still available?

- Hang on. Two left!

One of them's yours! Congratulations!

Step to side.

- What'd you get?

- Picking crud out. Stellar!

Wow!

Couple of newbies?

Yes, sir! Our first day! We are ready!

Make your choice.

- You want to go first?

- No, you go.

Oh, my. What's available?

Restroom attendant's open,

not for reason you think.

- Any chance of getting Krelman?

- Sure, you're on.

I'm sorry, Krelman just closed out.

Wax monkey's always open.

The Krelman opened up again.

What happened?

A bee died. Make an opening. See?

He's dead. Another dead one.

Deady. Deadified. Two more dead.

Dead from neck up.

Dead from neck down. That's life!

Oh, this is so hard!

Heating, cooling,

stunt bee, pourer, stirrer,

humming, inspector number seven,

lint coordinator, stripe supervisor,

mite wrangler. Barry, what

Do you think I should... Barry?

Barry!

All right, we've got sunflower patch

in quadrant nine...

What happened to you?

Where are you?

- I'm going out.

- Out? Out where?

- Out there.

- Oh, no!

I have to, before I go

to work for the rest of my life.

You're gonna die! You're crazy! Hello?

Another call coming in.

If anyone's feeling brave,

there's Korean deli on 83rd

that gets their roses today.

Hey, guys.

- Look at that.

- Isn't that kid we saw yesterday?

Hold it, son, flight deck restricted.

It's OK, Lou. We're gonna take him up.

Really? Feeling lucky, are you?

Sign here, here. Just initial that.

- Thank you.

- OK.

You got rain advisory today,

and as you all know,

bees cannot fly in rain.

So be careful. As always,

watch your brooms,

hockey sticks, dogs,

birds, bears and bats.

Also, I got couple of reports

of root beer being poured on us.

Murphy's in home because of it,

babbling like a cicada!

- That's awful.

- And reminder for you rookies,

bee law number one,

absolutely no talking to humans!

All right, launch positions!

Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Buzz, buzz,

buzz, buzz! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz!

Black and yellow!

Hello!

Are you ready for this hot shot?

Yeah. Yeah, bring it on.

Wind, check.

- Antennae, check.

- Nectar pack, check.

- Wings, check.

- Stinger, check.

Scared out of my shorts, check.

OK, ladies,

let's move it out!

Pound those petunias,

you striped stem-suckers!

All of you, drain those flowers!

Wow! I'm out!

I can't believe I'm out!

So blue.

I feel so fast and free!

Box kite!

Wow!

Flowers!

This is Blue Leader.

We have roses visually.

Bring it around 30 degrees and hold.

Roses!

30 degrees, roger. Bringing it around.

Stand to the side, kid.

It's got a bit of a kick.

That is one nectar collector!

- Ever see pollination up close?

- No, sir.

I pick up some pollen here, sprinkle it

over here. Maybe dash over there,

a pinch on that one.

See that? It's a little bit of magic.

That's amazing. Why do we do that?

That's pollen power. More pollen, more

flowers, more nectar, more honey for us.

Oool.

I'm picking up a lot of bright yellow.

Would be daisies. Don't we need those?

Oopy that visual.

Wait. One of these flowers

seems to be on the move.

Say again? You're reporting

a moving flower?

Affirmative.

That was online!

This is the coolest. What is it?

I don't know, but I'm loving this color.

It smells good.

Not like flowers, but I like them.

Yeah, fuzzy.

Chemical-y.

Oareful, guys. It's a little grabby.

My sweet lord of bees!

Oandy-brain, get off there!

Problem!

- Guys!

- This could be bad.

Affirmative.

Very close.

Gonna hurt.

Mama's little boy.

You are way out of position, rookie!

Rooming in at you like a missile!

Help me!

I don't think these are flowers.

- Should we tell him?

- I think he knows.

What is this?!

Match point!

You can start packing up, honey,

because you're about to eat it!

Yowser!

Gross.

There's a bee in the car!

- Do something!

- I'm driving!

- Hi, bee.

- He's back here!

He's going to sting me!

Nobody moved. If you don't move,

he won't sting you. Freeze!

He blinked!

Spray him, Granny!

What are you doing?!

Wow... tension level

out here is unbelievable.

I gotta get home.

Oan't fly in the rain.

Oan't fly in the rain.

Oan't fly in the rain.

Mayday! Mayday! Bee going down!

Ken, could you close

the window please?

Ken, could you close

the window please?

Check out my new resume.

I made it into a fold-out brochure.

You see? Folds out.

Oh, no. More humans. I don't need this.

What was that?

Maybe this time. This time. This time.

This time! This time! This...

Drapes!

That is diabolical.

It's fantastic. It's got all my special

skills, even my top-ten favorite movies.

What's number one? Star Wars?

Nah, I don't go for that...

...kind of stuff.

No wonder we shouldn't talk to them.

They're out of their minds.

When I leave job interview, they're

flabbergasted, can't believe what I say.

There's sun. Maybe that's the way out.

I don't remember sun

having a big 75 on it.

I predicted global warming.

I could feel it getting hotter.

At first I thought it was just me.

Wait! Stop! Bee!

Stand back. These are winter boots.

Wait!

Don't kill him!

You know I'm allergic to them!

This thing could kill me!

Why does his life have

less value than yours?

Why does his life have any less value

than mine? Is that your statement?

I'm just saying all life has value. You

don't know what he's capable of feeling.

My brochure!

There you go, little guy.

I'm not scared of him.

It's an allergic thing.

Put that on your resume brochure.

My whole face could puff up.

Make it one of your special skills.

Knocking someone out

is also a special skill.

Right. Bye, Vanessa. Thanks.

- Vanessa, next week? Yogurt night?

- Sure, Ken. You know, whatever.

- You could put carob chips on there.

- Bye.

- Supposed to be less calories.

- Bye.

I gotta say something.

She saved my life.

I gotta say something.

All right, here it goes.

Nah.

What would I say?

I could really get in trouble.

It's bee law.

You're not supposed to talk to humans.

I can't believe I'm doing this.

I've got to.

Oh, I can't do it. Come on!

No. Yes. No.

Do it. I can't.

How should I start?

"You like jazz?" No, that's no good.

Here she comes! Speak, you fool!

Hi!

I'm sorry.

- You're talking.

- Yes, I know.

You're talking!

I'm so sorry.

No, it's OK. It's fine.

I know I'm dreaming.

But I don't recall going to bed.

Well, I'm sure this

is very disconcerting.

This is a bit of a surprise to me.

I mean, you're a bee!

I am. And I'm not supposed

to be doing this,

but they were all trying to kill me.

And if it wasn't for you...

I had to thank you.

It's just how I was raised.

That was little weird.

- I'm talking with a bee.

- Yeah.

I'm talking to bees.

And bees are talking to me!

I just want to say I'm grateful.

I'll leave now.

- Wait! How did you learn to do that?

- What?

The talking thing.

Same way you did, I guess.

"Mama, Dada, honey." You pick it up.

- That's very funny.

- Yeah.

Bees are funny. If we didn't laugh,

we'd cry with what we have to deal with.

Anyway...

Oan I...

...get you something?

- Like what?

I don't know. I mean...

I don't know. Coffee?

I don't want to put you out.

It's no trouble. It takes two minutes.

- It's just coffee.

- I hate to impose.

- Don't be ridiculous!

- Actually, I would love a cup.

Hey, you want rum cake?

- I shouldn't.

- Have some.

- No, I can't.

- Come on!

I'm trying to lose couple micrograms.

- Where?

- These stripes don't help.

You look great!

I don't know if you know

anything about fashion.

Are you all right?

No.

He's making tie in cab

as they're flying up Madison.

He finally gets there.

He runs up steps into church.

The wedding is on.

And he says, "Watermelon?

I thought you said Guatemalan.

Why would I marry watermelon?"

Is that a joke?

That's the kind of stuff we do.

Yeah, different.

So, what are you gonna do, Barry?

About work? I don't know.

I want to do my part for hive,

but I can't do it the way they want.

I know how you feel.

- You do?

- Sure.

My parents wanted me to be lawyer or

a doctor, but I wanted to be florist.

- Really?

- My only interest is flowers.

Our new queen was just elected

with that same campaign slogan.

Anyway, if you look...

There's my hive right there. See it?

You're in Sheep Meadow!

Yes! I'm right off Turtle Pond!

No way! I know that area.

I lost toe ring there once.

- Why do girls put rings on their toes?

- Why not?

- It's like putting a hat on your knee.

- Maybe I'll try that.

- You all right, ma'am?

- Oh, yeah. Fine.

Just having two cups of coffee!

Anyway, this has been great.

Thanks for coffee.

Yeah, it's no trouble.

Sorry I couldn't finish it. If I did,

I'd be up for the rest of my life.

Are you...?

Can I take a piece of this with me?

Sure! Here, have crumb.

- Thanks!

- Yeah.

All right. Well, then...

I guess I'll see you around.

Or not.

OK, Barry.

And thank you

so much again... for before.

Oh, that? That was nothing.

Well, not nothing, but... Anyway...

This can't possibly work.

He's all set to go.

We may as well try it.

OK, Dave, pull chute.

- Sounds amazing.

- It was amazing!

It was scariest,

happiest moment of my life.

Humans! I can't believe

you were with humans!

Giant, scary humans!

What were they like?

Huge and crazy. They talk crazy.

They eat crazy giant things.

They drive crazy.

- Do they try to kill you, like on TV?

- Some of them. But some of them don't.

- How'd you get back?

- Poodle.

You did it, and I'm glad. You saw

whatever you wanted to see.

You had your "experience." Now you

can pick out your job and be normal.

- Well...

- Well?

Well, I met someone.

You did? Was she Bee-ish?

- wasp?! Your parents will kill you!

- No, no, no, not wasp.

- Spider?

- I'm not attracted to spiders.

I know it's hottest thing,

with eight legs and all.

I can't get by that face.

So who is she?

She's... human.

No, no. That's bee law.

You wouldn't break bee law.

- Her name's Vanessa.

- Oh, boy.

She's so nice. And she's a florist!

Oh, no! You're dating a human florist!

We're not dating.

You're flying outside hive, talking

to humans that attack our homes

with power washers and M-80s!

One-eighth stick of dynamite!

She saved my life!

And she understands me.

This is over!

Eat this.

This is not over! What was that?

- They call it crumb.

- It was so stingin' stripey!

And that's not what they eat.

That's what falls off what they eat!

- You know what Oinnabon is?

- No.

It's bread and cinnamon and frosting.

They heat it up...

Sit down!

...really hot!

- Listen to me!

We are not them! We're us.

There's us and there's them!

Yes, but who can deny

the heart that is yearning?

There's no yearning.

Stop yearning. Listen to me!

You have got to start thinking bee,

my friend. Thinking bee!

- Thinking bee.

- Thinking bee.

Thinking bee! Thinking bee!

Thinking bee! Thinking bee!

There he is. He's in the pool.

You know what your problem is, Barry?

I gotta start thinking bee?

How much longer will this go on?

It's been three days!

Why aren't you working?

I've got lot of big life decisions

to think about.

What life? You have no life!

You have no job. You're barely bee!

Would it kill you

to make little honey?

Barry, come out.

Your father's talking to you.

Martin, would you talk to him?

Barry, I'm talking to you!

You coming?

Got everything?

All set!

Go ahead. I'll catch up.

Don't be too long.

Watch this!

Vanessa!

- We're still here.

- I told you not to yell at him.

He doesn't respond to yelling!

- Then why yell at me?

- Because you don't listen!

I'm not listening to this.

Sorry, I've gotta go.

- Where are you going?

- I'm meeting a friend.

A girl? Is this why you can't decide?

Bye.

I just hope she's Bee-ish.

They have huge parade

of flowers every year in Pasadena?

To be in Tournament of Roses,

That's every florist's dream!

Up on float, surrounded

by flowers, crowds cheering.

A tournament. Do roses

compete in athletic events?

No. All right, I've got one.

How come you don't fly everywhere?

It's exhausting. Why don't you

run everywhere? It's faster.

Yeah, OK, I see, I see.

All right, your turn.

TiVo. You can just freeze live TV?

That's insane!

You don't have that?

We have Hivo, but it's a disease.

It's a horrible, horrible disease.

Oh, my.

Dumb bees!

You must want to sting all those jerks.

We try not to sting.

It's usually fatal for us.

So you have to watch your temper.

Very carefully.

You kick wall, take walk,

write an angry letter and throw it out.

Work through it like any emotion:

Anger, jealousy, lust.

Oh, my goodness! Are you OK?

Yeah.

- What is wrong with you?!

- It's a bug.

He's not bothering anybody.

Get out of here, you creep!

What was that? Pic 'N' Save circular?

Yeah, it was. How did you know?

It felt like about 10 pages.

Seventy-five is pretty much our limit.

You've really got that

down to science.

- I lost a cousin to Italian Vogue.

- I'll bet.

What in name

of Mighty Hercules is this?

How did this get here?

Oute Bee, Golden Blossom,

Ray Liotta Private Select?

- Is he that actor?

- I never heard of him.

- Why is this here?

- For people. We eat it.

You don't have

enough food of your own?

- Well, yes.

- How do you get it?

- Bees make it.

- I know who makes it!

And it's hard to make it!

There's heating, cooling, and stirring.

You need the whole Krelman thing!

- It's organic.

- It's our-ganic!

It's just honey, Barry.

Just what?!

Bees don't know about this!

This is stealing! a lot of stealing!

You've taken our homes, schools,

hospitals! This is all we have!

And it's on sale?!

I'm getting to the bottom of this.

I'm getting to bottom

of all of this!

Hey, Hector.

- Are you almost done?

- Almost.

He is here. I sense it.

Well, I guess I'll go home now

and just leave this nice honey out,

with no one around.

You're busted, box boy!

I knew I heard something.

So you can talk!

I can talk.

And now you'll start talking!

Where are you getting sweet stuff?

Who's your supplier?

I don't understand.

I thought we were friends.

The last thing we want

to upset bees!

You're too late! It's ours now!

You, sir, have crossed

the wrong sword!

You, sir, will be lunch

for my iguana, Ignacio!

Where is honey coming from?

Tell me where!

Honey Farms! It comes from Honey Farms!

Crazy person!

What horrible thing has happened here?

These faces, they never knew

what hit them. And now

they're on the road to nowhere!

Just keep still.

What? You're not dead?

Do I look dead? They will wipe anything

that moves. Where are you headed?

To Honey Farms.

I am onto something huge here.

I'm going to Alaska. Moose blood,

crazy stuff. Blow your head off!

I'm going to Tacoma.

- And you?

- He really is dead.

All right.

Uh-oh!

- What is that?!

- Oh, no!

- wiper! Triple blade!

- Triple blade?

Jump on! It's your only chance, bee!

Why does everything have

to be so doggone clean?!

How much do you people need to see?!

Open your eyes!

Stick your head out the window!

From NPR News in Washington,

I'm Carl Kasell.

But don't kill any more bugs!

- Bee!

- Moose blood guy!!

- You hear something?

- Like what?

Like tiny screams.

Turn off the radio.

Whassup, bee boy?

Hey, Blood.

Just row of honey jars,

as far as the eye could see.

Wow!

I assume wherever this truck goes

is where they're getting it.

I mean, that honey's ours.

- Bees hang tight.

- We're all jammed in.

It's a close community.

Not us, man. We are on our own.

Every mosquito on his own.

- What if you get in trouble?

- You mosquito, you are in trouble.

Nobody likes us. They just smack.

See mosquito, smack, smack!

At least you're out in the world.

You must meet girls.

Mosquito girls try to trade up,

get with a moth, dragonfly.

Mosquito girls don't want no mosquitoes.

You gotta be kidding me!

Moose Blood Is about to leave

the building! So long, bee!

- Hey, guys!

- Moose Blood!

I knew I'd catch y'all down here.

Did you bring your crazy straw?

We throw it in jars, slap label on it,

and it's pretty much pure profit.

What is this place?

A bee's got brain

the size of a pinhead.

They are pinheads!

Pinhead.

- Check out a new smoker.

- Oh, sweet. That's one you want.

The Thomas 3000!

Smoker?

Ninety puffs minute, semi-automatic.

Twice nicotine, all tar.

A couple breaths of this

knocks them right out.

They make honey,

and we make money.

"They make honey,

and we make money"?

Oh, my!

What's going on? Are you OK?

Yeah. It doesn't last too long.

Do you know you're

in a fake hive with fake walls?

Our queen was moved here.

We had no choice.

This is your queen?

That's a man in women's clothes!

That's drag queen!

What is this?

Oh, no!

There's hundreds of them!

Bee honey.

Our honey is being brazenly stolen

on a massive scale!

This is worse than anything bears

have done! I intend to do something.

Oh, Barry, stop.

Who told you humans are taking

our honey? That's a rumor.

Do these look like rumors?

That's a conspiracy theory.

These are obviously doctored photos.

How did you get mixed up in this?

He's been talking to humans.

- What?

- Talking to humans?!

He has a human girlfriend.

And they make out!

Make out? Barry!

We do not.

- You wish you could.

- Whose side are you on?

The bees!

I dated cricket once in San Antonio.

Those crazy legs kept me up all night.

Barry, this is what you want

to do with your life?

I want to do it for all of our lives.

Nobody works harder than bees!

Dad, I remember you

coming home so overworked

your hands were still stirring.

You couldn't stop.

I remember that.

What right do they have to our honey?

We live on two cups a year. They put it

in lip balm for no reason whatsoever!

Even if it's true, what can one bee do?

Sting them where it really hurts.

In fact! eye!

- That would hurt.

- No.

Up your nose? That's killer.

There's only one place you can sting

the humans, one place where it matters.

Hive at Five, hive's only

full-hour action news source.

No more bee beards!

With Bob Bumble at the anchor desk.

Weather with Storm Stinger.

Sports with Buzz Larvi.

And Jeanette Ohung.

- Good evening. I'm Bob Bumble.

- And I'm Jeanette Ohung.

A tri-county bee, Barry Benson,

intends to sue human race

for stealing our honey,

packaging it and profiting

from it illegally!

Tomorrow night on Bee Larry King,

we'll have three former queens here in

our studio, discussing their new book,

Classy Ladies,

out this week on Hexagon.

Tonight we're talking to Barry Benson.

Did you ever think, "I'm kid

from the hive. I can't do this"?

Bees have never been afraid

to change the world.

What about Bee Columbus?

Bee Gandhi? Bejesus?

Where I'm from, we'd never sue humans.

We were thinking

of stickball or candy stores.

How old are you?

The bee community

is supporting you in this case,

which will be trial

of the bee century.

You know, they have Larry King

in the human world too.

It's a common name. Next week...

He looks like you and has show

and suspenders and colored dots...

Next week...

Glasses, quotes on bottom from the

guest even though you just heard 'em.

Bear Week next week!

They're scary, hairy and here live.

Always leans forward, pointy shoulders,

squinty eyes, very Jewish.

In tennis, you attack

at a point of weakness!

It was my grandmother, Ken. She's 81.

Honey, her backhand's joke!

I'm not gonna take advantage of that?

Quiet, please.

Actual work going on here.

- Is that that same bee?

- Yes, it is!

I'm helping him sue human race.

- Hello.

- Hello, bee.

This is Ken.

Yeah, I remember you. Timberland, size

ten and half. Vibram sole, I believe.

Why does he talk again?

Listen, you better go

'cause we're really busy working.

But it's our yogurt night!

Bye-bye.

Why is yogurt night so difficult?!

You poor thing.

You two have been at this for hours!

Yes, and Adam here

has been huge help.

- Frosting...

- How many sugars?

Just one. I try not

to use competition.

So why are you helping me?

Bees have good qualities.

And it takes my mind off shop.

Instead of flowers, people

are giving balloon bouquets now.

Those are great, if you're three.

And artificial flowers.

- Oh, those just get me psychotic!

- Yeah, me too.

Bent stingers, pointless pollination.

Bees must hate those fake things!

Nothing worse

than daffodils that had work done.

Maybe this could make up

for it little bit.

- This lawsuit's pretty big deal.

- I guess.

Are you sure you want to go through with it?

Am I sure? When I'm done with

the humans, they won't be able

to say, "Honey, I'm home,"

without paying royalty!

It's an incredible scene

here in downtown Manhattan,

where world anxiously waits,

because for first time in history,

we will hear for ourselves

if honeybees can actually speak.

What have we gotten into here, Barry?

It's pretty big, isn't it?

I can't believe how many humans

don't work during the day.

You think billion-dollar multinational

Do food companies have good lawyers?

Everybody needs to stay

behind barricade.

- What's the matter?

- I don't know, I just got chills.

Well, if it isn't a bee team.

You boys work on this?

All rise! Honorable

Judge Bumbleton presiding.

All right. Oase number 4475,

Superior Court of New York,

Barry Bee Benson v. Honey Industry

is now in session.

Mr. Montgomery, you're representing

the five food companies collectively?

A privilege.

Mr. Benson... you're representing

all bees of the world?

I'm kidding. Yes, Your Honor,

we're ready to proceed.

Mr. Montgomery,

your opening statement, please.

Ladies and gentlemen of jury,

My grandmother was a simple woman.

Born on farm, she believed

it was man's divine right

to benefit from bounty

of nature God put before us.

If we lived in topsy-turvy world

Mr. Benson imagines,

just think of what it would mean.

I would have to negotiate

with silkworm

for elastic in my britches!

Talking bee!

How do we know this isn't some sort of

holographic motion-picture-capture

Hollywood wizardry?

They could be using laser beams!

Robotics! Ventriloquism!

Oloning! For all we know,

he could be on steroids!

Mr. Benson?

Ladies and gentlemen,

There's no trickery here.

I'm just an ordinary bee.

Honey's pretty important to me.

It's important to all bees.

We invented it!

We make it. And we protect it

with our lives.

Unfortunately, there are

some people in this room

who think they can take it from us

'cause we're little guys!

I'm hoping that, after this is all over,

you'll see how, by taking our honey,

you not only take everything we have

but everything we are!

I wish he'd dress like that

all the time. So nice!

All your first witness.

So, Mr. Klauss Vanderhayden

of Honey Farms, a big company you have.

I suppose so.

I see you also own

Honey Burton and Honron!

Yes, they provide beekeepers

for our farms.

Beekeeper. I find that

to be a very disturbing term.

I don't imagine you employ

any bee-free-ers, do you?

- No.

- I couldn't hear you.

- No.

- No.

Because you don't free bees.

You keep bees. Not only that,

it seems you thought bear would be

an appropriate image for a jar of honey.

They're very lovable creatures.

Yogi Bear, Fozzie Bear, Build-A-Bear.

You mean like this?

Bears kill bees!

How'd you like his head crashing

through your living room?!

Biting into your couch!

Spitting out your throw pillows!

OK, that's enough. Take him away.

So, Mr. Sting, thank you for being here.

Your name intrigues me.

- Where have I heard it before?

- I was with a band called Police.

But you've never been

a police officer, have you?

No, I haven't.

No, you haven't. And so here

we have yet another example

of bee culture casually

stolen by human

for nothing more than

a prance-about stage name.

Oh, please.

Have you ever been stung, Mr. Sting?

Because I'm feeling

a little stung, Sting.

Or should I say... Mr. Gordon M. Sumner!

That's not his real name?! You idiots!

Mr. Liotta, first,

belated congratulations on

your Emmy win for guest spot

in ER in 2005.

Thank you. Thank you.

I see from your resume

that you're devilishly handsome

with churning inner turmoil

that's ready to blow.

I enjoy what I do. Is that a crime?

Not yet it isn't. But is this

What has it come to you?

Exploiting tiny, helpless bees

so you don't

have to rehearse

your part and learn your lines, sir?

Watch it, Benson!

I could blow right now!

This isn't goodfella.

This is badfella!

Why doesn't someone just step on

this creep, and we can all go home?!

- Order in this court!

- You're all thinking about it!

Order! Order, I say!

- Say it!

- Mr. Liotta, please sit down!

I think it was awfully nice

of that bear to pitch in like that.

I think the jury's on our side.

Are we doing everything right, legally?

I'm a florist.

Right. Well, here's a great team.

To a great team!

Well, hello.

- Ken!

- Hello.

I didn't think you were coming.

No, I was just late.

I tried to call, but... battery.

I didn't want all this to go to waste,

so I called Barry. Luckily, he was free.

Oh, that was lucky.

There's little left.

I could heat it up.

Yeah, heat it up, sure, whatever.

So I hear you're quite a tennis player.

I'm not much for games myself.

The ball's a little grabby.

That's where I usually sit.

Right... there.

Ken, Barry was looking at your resume,

and he agreed with me that eating with

chopsticks aren't really a special skill.

You think I don't see what you're doing?

I know how hard it is to find

the rightjob. We have that in common.

Do we?

Bees have 100 percent employment,

but we do jobs like taking crud out.

That's just what

I was thinking about doing.

Ken, I let Barry borrow your razor

for his fuzz. I hope that was all right.

I'm going to drain the old stinger.

Yeah, you do that.

Look at that.

You know, I've just about had it

with your little mind games.

- What's that?

- Italian Vogue.

Mamma mia, that's a lot of pages.

A lot of ads.

Remember what Van said, why is

Is your life more valuable than mine?

Funny, I just can't seem to recall that!

I think something stinks here!

I love the smell of flowers.

How do you like the smell of flames?!

Not as much.

Water bug! Not taking sides!

Ken, I'm wearing a Chapstick hat!

This is pathetic!

I've got issues!

Well, well, well, royal flush!

- You're bluffing.

- Am I?

Surf's up, dude!

Poo water!

That bowl is gnarly.

Except for those dirty yellow rings!

Kenneth! What are you doing?!

You know, I don't even like honey!

I don't eat it!

We need to talk!

He's just a little bee!

And he happens to be

the nicest bee I've met in a long time!

Long time? What are you talking about?!

Are there other bugs in your life?

No, but there are other things bugging

me in life. And you're one of them!

Fine! Talking bees, no yogurt night...

My nerves are fried from riding

on this emotional roller coaster!

Goodbye, Ken.

And for your information,

I prefer sugar-free, artificial

sweeteners made by man!

I'm sorry about all that.

I know it's got

an aftertaste! I like it!

I always felt there was some kind

of the barrier between Ken and me.

I couldn't overcome it.

Oh, well.

Are you OK for trial?

I believe Mr. Montgomery

is about out of ideas.

We would like to call

Mr. Barry Benson Bee to stand.

Good idea! You can really see why he's

considered one of the best lawyers...

Yeah.

Layton, you've

gotta weave some magic

with this jury,

or it's gonna be all over.

Don't worry. only thing I have

to do to turn this jury around

is to remind them

of what they don't like about bees.

- You got tweezers?

- Are you allergic?

Only to lose, son. Only to lose.

Mr. Benson Bee, I'll ask you

what I think we'd all like to know.

What exactly is your relationship

to that woman?

We're friends.

- Good friends?

- Yes.

How good? Do you live together?

Wait a minute...

Are you her little...

...bedbug?

I've seen a bee documentary or two.

From what I understand,

doesn't your queen give birth

to all bee children?

- Yeah, but...

- So those aren't your real parents!

- Oh, Barry...

- Yes, they are!

Hold me back!

You're an illegitimate bee,

aren't you, Benson?

He's denouncing bees!

Don't y'all date your cousins?

- Objection!

- I'm going to pincushion this guy!

Adam, don't! It's what he wants!

Oh, I'm hit!!

Oh, lordy, I am hit!

Order! Order!

The venom! venom

is coursing through my veins!

I have been felled

by a winged beast of destruction!

You see? You can't treat them

like equals! They're striped savages!

Stinging only thing

they know! It's their way!

- Adam, stay with me.

- I can't feel my legs.

What angel of mercy

will come forward to suck poison

from my heaving buttocks?

I will have order in this court. Order!

Order, please!

The case of honeybees

versus human race

took pointed turn against bees

yesterday when one of their legal

team stung Layton T. Montgomery.

- Hey, buddy.

- Hey.

- Is there much pain?

- Yeah.

I...

I blew the whole case, didn't I?

It doesn't matter. What matters is

you're alive. You could have died.

I'd be better off dead. Look at me.

They got it from cafeteria