06 Jun California Romantica

California Romantica

next time we meet
let’s keep our clothes on

what am I the Dalai Lama

if they’ll cheat on someone else for you
they’ll cheat on you for someone else

we are the animals that paint themselves
polyrhythmic manifestations

a conjurer came to town
mustached
collecting the rubbings of my eraser

imagine the inorganic
mineral elements forming new rumors

but where is dystopia anymore
with a surplus of choices
desire or narcotics

even if you’re dead it’ll
still kill you

just watch the horizon line
so you won’t get sick
at sea

I dreamt of animal-made art
Cézanne was fond of
crested macaques

and of a place where
merely painting horses meant power