Lao Tzu Turkey

after
30 minutes
of blank white
screen
I
click out

can't write tonight

so
I shut off
the
Kyu Sakamoto
tunes

pour the
beer down
the drain
and park my
ass
on the couch
with a book
and a glass
of water

smoking as
the television
glows
muted
like a
alien
candle

I stretch out
in boxers
under
cheap blanket

keeping the
sweater on
I find
the book
mark
and
open

and apply
my eyes
to
the words

I read
alone on
the couch

Lao Tzu

The Complete Works of...

I read
with the taste of
beer
still in
my mouth

and taken away
by the raging
white rapids

laying calm

letting the
water
have its
way with me

I bob
up and down

I float

simply float

letting it
happen to me

calmly

calmly

I can't write tonight

Thanksgiving
2010