not so concerned w/

truth these days
what i mean is truth
is a malleable thing
one man's is another's lie.

evolution vs creationism , i. e.

ya know? no example much starker than that.

i need cigs
no wait.
that's you.

if i were a rich man
then i wouldn't be this brokeass woman
with a melting face saying
goodbye to good company cuz well


good company? listening to the reach
for finances i remember how the jack danny's
cost me fo hunnert $$



and those are my minutes on the phone
paid for by me. and the up in smokes
are almost five a pack now
that's times 2 recently, reverently.

















trute? u can't hannle it.
trooth? i can't believe in it.
truth? etymology:


from oe treuthe

which somehow derives from the indo european root
deru- from which also spracht betroth, drupe, druid.

and that li'l gem meant

wait for it



to be firm solid or steadfast therefore
like a tree. to harden. to endure

wood , trough, tryst, timber,
pitch, duramen.



heartwood

methusela twists
an inch or so a year
slowly gaining
truth into empty air.

prometheus finally died
it wasn't his liver--
that kept growing, cancerous.

she said, i will hate you forever
if you do not do something
with your talents. he doesn't
believe her. she doesn't believe
in truth.

lately the music is tense
he found his voice
he needs but not anything
she's willing to give.
dessication that's how
the duramen forms.

(lol at the spell check
that doesn't know the word
the word was the beginning
and in the beginning was the word)


take it out of context
take it out of the skin
take it and make something
lasting, something that endures
past the petrified bones
a twist away of the light

the old gods are dying
helena and warriors tire
us, revolution in the synagouges
and this rabble breaking starbucks
windows, looting the liquor store
and where do you think i got
this computer from. later into
constantine politicos
converted to christianity on a death
bed against his will to save the empire
a gift to generals and the birth
of nineteen eighty four disappearance.

the fires in alexandria burn
in the squares most nights,
they are dancing demonic
shadows on the minarets
on the juniper
and druped balcony. julius
and salina walk through the libraries
making empty spaces . patrols with torches
and ox fat and flame; burning heresy
and druids, poetry and history
clean this graffiti
from the halls of rome
burn philosophy from the names.

we came home from the fields
tired and hungry. the millet
soaked in water. the quarter pound
hamburger, two for three dollah,
pork fat if we were lucky, and greens.


jesus and saul were working
in the wheat fields during harvest
they thought they'd take
some wheat for this
wedding they were to attend
two friends, a carpenter and merchant's
daughter. childhood sweethearts
and the father, barely getting by
what with the duties to church and taxes
to the emperor, the cost of bag of flour
from the miller. they had been out
of work for a couple of months
since the vessel they'd been hired on
left port without them one morning
it hadn't yet returned. the nets
stowed were their only collateral-`
the loan jesus had taken out
to get maria the curative potion
that hadn't even worked was now
unsecured. and unpayable. this threshing
job was the only thing available
and the pay was piecework. saul knew
a miller in another province
who didn't ask questions. two days before
sabbath, they left for the wedding
with wheat in their sacks.
on the way they stopped at the millers
and had it ground into the finest grade.

the wedding was in full swing
when jesus and saul arrived.
the bride's father appeared drunk
but it turned out that he was having
a panic attack. the cakes were going
to be gone and sundown began shabbat.

when he saw the wedding gifts
he was almost prostate at the good fortune.
as the bread and cakes from the flour
sacks were eaten that night, the father
praised the miracle of jesus and saul.

woah. wait. the bread and loaves of fish story?
man that isn't even the wedding ! jesus turned
water into wine there man. what did yo momma
do to you man.


wow.
it's late.
truth. bark. hardwood. heart and enduring.
mohagany. let out the clutch, real slow.