TURKISH STAR WARS


Because the rain fell cursively your face smudged like a love note
Beat up by waves of white noise drowned in calm without a lifeboat
Stiff upper kitchen chair, souls spiral up from mugs of coffee
Without a point of view you feel just like a horseless jockey

Moon slices up the mountain, serves it up like upside down cake
Downstairs I dictionary up my nose until I earthquake
Shove secret centuries in kitchen corners and old sock drawers
Pick up the phone and on the other line is Turkish Star Wars

Orphaned tarantula scurries along suburban sidewalk
Pendulum can’t upset the obstinate grandfather clock
Your birth certificate is printed on the sunrise pink clouds
These inert history books are drained of everything but nouns

Because the snow accumulates inside your empty eyelid
Map collapses into itself, spits states into beehive dream grid
These seeds are helicopters chopping logs along sunken shores
Flip to the index see the entry labeled Turkish Star Wars

Time laps up neon pools of paint peeling off rotten oranges
Songs scale the plastic heights of fake trees so abstract and gorgeous
Dial tone face swirl in the gray ghosts of raincoats and in ashtrays
Trying to uncapture the feelings trapped in jars of mayonnaise

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