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bought caulk without having to ask anyone if they know anything about caulk By: via poetry falcon

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going going all day all day By: via poetry falcon

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neck got worse and sleep was erratic time to get everyone out the door and see my old old friend the chiropractor i am his most loyal customer By: via poetry falcon

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and so it is with one hour of sleep and burning back and neck tight and crooked in the heavy night the toddler needs me and walk and walk and sing and sing and finally collapse on the sofa with him on top of me still awake but he doesn't struggle and seems to doze off so i clench him and try to rise up but almost topple us both over i am so tired and i walk him down the loud creaky hardwood hallway and lay him down but he almost wakes up again and as we lay there he wakes up several times but is reassured that he can feel me next to him until finally after i've fallen asleep and been awakened a several times i think i can escape and i do for now By: via poetry falcon

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behavior issues with 6 after school i know he works really hard to hold it together all day and then is exhausted from it and can't control himself in fundamental ways once he's home with us and it's hard on everyone because i really miss him when he's gone but i miss him even more when he's not there right in front of me but we do our best to meet each other in whatever way we can By: via poetry falcon

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wild turkeys roam the front lawn two yards down from where we wait and approach us By: via poetry falcon

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my mind and body are tired in the humid afternoon as we await the arrival of the mustard bus with our first grader in it eager to hear how it went for him and rejoice along with or comfort through the pain By: via poetry falcon

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toddler woke up and we performed many household functions together mostly related to cleaning and organizing it is quite different having 6 at school and i had forgotten just how much so but i know there will be days where toddler is sick or upset all day for whatever reason and those are long days as well By: via poetry falcon

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then i did a certain meditation practice sitting in the grass also in the sun with wife myself and 6 particularly in mind By: via poetry falcon

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toddler fell asleep on the way home so i had a chance to eat a tofu thai peanut wrap and read more of infinite jest while sitting in the sun with my shirt off allowing the breeze to massage my skin and the bird sounds to keep me present By: via poetry falcon

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before we went to the pet store i had texted my wife an apology for upsetting her so and explained my understanding of what she's looking for and not looking for and offered how i thought i was being misunderstood she replied an hour or so later also apologizing and admitting that some things are triggering her that she wants to discuss with me but also work on in her own time By: via poetry falcon

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toddler and i watered the plants and went to petco to get some cat litter and food for our orange cat as well as watch the fish and birds and rodents do their thing By: via poetry falcon

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got 6 off to his first day of first grade and another blow up with the wife afterward feel like i ate a shit sandwich i'm sure her version is equal as i am no saint and prone to misunderstanding By: via poetry falcon

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in other news: you can make a decision based on myriad variables that you could never explain to anyone and humans will judge that decision based on their assumptions from wholly different point of view and the whole thing is so oddly disconnected and yet pressed together tightly in a long humid room By: via poetry falcon

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i go back inside and work on her computer but it's hopeless so i fire up mine and begin the long download which i'll hopefully be able to transfer to the external drive in some fashion that she can find all this stuff there are more pictures and videos on her phone than i thought possible By: via poetry falcon

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so i need to pee before i tackle this impossible job but 6 has locked himself in the bathroom for his required shower so i walk out to a private little spot by the compost and let it flow but i notice a spider freaking out back and forth and realize i'm peeing on the extremity of it's web and it thinks it has caught the jackpot By: via poetry falcon

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wife's phone is too full and she wants to be able to take pictures of first day of first grade in the morning but she's had issues trying to get it unloaded onto her computer which is my old computer which out of date in many ways By: via poetry falcon

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we head home in a funk except for toddler who is chipper as hell By: via poetry falcon

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6 can't manage at the park he can't find anyone to fire up his nerf gun obsession as he drags himself around the sandy lot populated with apparatus and i'm feeling similar but i'm responsible for keeping toddler alive which hasn't been as easy since he became more of a daredevil on the equipment By: via poetry falcon

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i read a few pages today even though i'm all behind on everything but i need to rest my legs sometimes or suffer the consequences anyway it was good to dip back in to that world of language and invented futures By: via poetry falcon

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my new friend was a student of dfw [david foster wallace] in his freshman year pretty much by accident and before the big fame wave crashed into him he has good stories and describes what a nice guy he was which all reignites my desire to read infinite jest which i read two thirds of before becoming a stay at home dad and setting it aside By: via poetry falcon

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the boys and i are so lethargic it's difficult to get to the park but we finally make it there only to still feel lethargic By: via poetry falcon

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had a back spasm picking up the toddler this morning so i set him down and iced it as my chiropractor always suggests so far it's not getting worse but it is sore and reminding me of posture and how hard it is to carry these humans around By: via poetry falcon

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our friends had to leave early this morning to make it to an appointment and we're all tired and the boys want to go to the park but can't get themselves ready as we have first day of school tomorrow and need to get groceries i put a call in to my dad to see if he can watch the boys while i stock up because i am not taking them both grocery shopping ever again By: via poetry falcon

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more sazeracs and more accolades yes they are good as i sip red wine for some physical reason and our chicago friends are off early in the morning and we will miss them especially 6 will miss is his brother 41 who played the most minecraft with him ever and had the best conversations and built the best structures By: via poetry falcon

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we get back and our chicago friends want sazeracs and i'm touched they like them so much so i make them and serve them to exclamations that warm my heart even deeper i'm a good boy like a puppy dog By: via poetry falcon

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of course then i was all sweaty in his classroom meeting his teacher and figuring out how to label all his supplies with his chinese name but i'm used to looking underdressed and possibly being stinky so just like new york By: via poetry falcon

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most walked back to the school but i figured i was warmed up and i haven't been able to run for almost a week so ran the whole way and it still took a while By: via poetry falcon

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meet your teacher night for first graders getting ready is terrible and frustrating with every kind of refusal even though we know he's excited we get parked far away in what looks like a no parking street but everyone is parking there anyway so we do too and make the long walk up to the school but when we get inside someone is telling everyone that they're ticketing on that street so a bunch of us haul ass running toward our cars like it's life and death and get them moved even further away to a little lot on the other side of town basically By: via poetry falcon

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toddler needs needs needs me today and 6 is good until our friends are up and around then the behavior explodes with him unable to control his excitement but somehow we manage to get lunch into the boys and i get toddler asleep and onto the bed where i pass out next to him for about half an hour i think then i come out and see them hanging with 6 and make some green tea and listen to the sadness that is human beaurocracy and jealousy no matter how good the intentions and i write write write some piles of words that i can edit or not later By: via poetry falcon

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got boys to bed and stayed up too late with our chicago friends drinking just a little too much so we're all tired but good because it was fun and rare to enjoy time in that way By: via poetry falcon

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art museum with no nap toddler and hyper 6 could have been a lot worse By: via poetry falcon

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one thinks you're fake another a genius that's what they think sometimes it's the same person on a different day yet there is always that dichotomy so why listen to it except you must be on to something By: via poetry falcon

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redundant screaming dawn again 5 am toddler 6 kicking me throughout the night nice to have guests anyway By: via poetry falcon

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our friends arrive and 6 launches into playing minecraft on his ipod begging us to play in the same world as him so we all download the game and join him in his world and he is in absolute heaven albeit totally obsessed and we've probably created a monster By: via poetry falcon

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expecting friends from chicago walking out to the compost bin a bee in the heavy drizzle By: via poetry falcon

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i make a good sazerac By: via poetry falcon

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then i make a sazerac each for wife and i By: via poetry falcon

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they have a couple craft cocktails and bring back chicken tenders and burgers for the boys a club sandwich for me and we sit outside in the chilled evening watching the puppy chase 6 By: via poetry falcon

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after nap and haircut sister in law stops by with two of three cousins and carlos the black lab puppy to drop off stuff they have for us hand me downs and such the boys and pup play out back a bit before firing up the minecraft and i send the sisters out to get a drink together while enjoy the buzz of excitement 6 has for his cousins and toddler pushes around his fake lawnmower By: via poetry falcon

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boys and i play guns in the backyard and then 6 and i do 3 laps around the perimeter him winning the race of course before we send mommy off to get her hair cut and get toddler down for nap By: via poetry falcon

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powerful chief of volume slaughter our abnegation colored in clarity thought foliage sap while commanders sever siddhas with their popsicle packs overlapping the dim solstice valley to weep like a jettison of martini electrons moving daylight through absolute love fluff resulting in blessed glass elephant colored as rose globes cascading strongly through unremitting sheets of kink rocks their bodies rolling thus circular in binding ellipse from old computers and algid brahmin rejection the length of jungles and delightful calculators in a leisure moon twinkle demanding elder verbs from thunderous diagram double good square power acceleration cheatin purity fangs to dualism in lama splash pants the very pusillanimous pants we spoke of with many favored transpositions By: via poetry falcon

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hours later i've had too much coffee and feel mild depression that i have to stop drinking it and i notice a large bruise on my left arm i have no idea how it got there i don't remember and i am not surprised whatsoever By: via poetry falcon

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in the midst of the murky suffering is the witness to astonishing brilliance of life growing of its own accord with only examples and guidance to assist its unfolding By: via poetry falcon

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grateful for this opportunity to be here for the boys always and it's still a motherfucker to answer the toddlers cry at ten to six with a full bladder and all of my own needs sitting there next to us as he cries wanting mommy but she just spent a long time with him and would like some more rest and he doesn't care so i use every creative deflection tool i can invent to get his mind and heart and desire into something else which eventually works and then falls apart and everything he wants to do is very loud noisy antithesis of sleep so it's a lot to take on first thing in the morning and only 29 more hours to go and this coffee could be transmogrified into pages of inky words but this will have to do for now and i can't get to my goddamn guitar to play for my band mates oh well one thing at a time By: via poetry falcon

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later in our backyard after lunch homework toddler nap and all that we battle and i am accidentally smashed in the balls with a baseball bat which sends body into automatic fight mode luckily i didn't hit anyone again this time the way the body reacts without my control is scary but seems like it has a purpose anyway i walk it off and walk some more man that hurts By: via poetry falcon

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only one other first grader family showed for the play date at the park 6s preschool teachers and many old friends and parents i knew were there for their own meet up and we all witnessed a cicada transmogrification By: via poetry falcon

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origin you devour my right arm endgame perfectly numbered condiments traveling potato-like and strained through erotic storms on outer donkey kindness kings of tabasco silence white shining thunderbolt spherical mirror mantra syrup explosive sweet freezer razors down to a core of quelling the five hole stone howling spirits boiled and wordy with their spatial paper density drinking chess dioxide from the full dang galaxy konk in a miraculous perigee of daylight eating ghouls unaware under stars loving climate calligraphy crescendo ink is the purity power system for twelve meals of vodka on one knee By: via poetry falcon

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transition is usually the hard part for 6 or for anyone By: via poetry falcon

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quiet morning until 6 gets home and then we have several flavors of chaos preparing for a play date at a nearby park with members of the incoming first grade class at his chinese immersion school By: via poetry falcon

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just a little gin hammers me so i back off must be the stress sleep deprivation lack of food i don't know but then toddler wants mommy for bed but can't settle so he wants me so i go pee and pick him up we walk in a circle on the front driveway me singing row your boat it's already after ten pm By: via poetry falcon

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we talk somewhat reasonably and it seems to help we'll see then i set up a gifted bluray player but it's not as good as our old one so i reconnect that one while toddler climbs onto the ottoman and is playing with the lamp light switch singing and dancing and acting extremely smart i pour a gin and give him a bath By: via poetry falcon

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my dad picks up 6 then toddler wakes up from nap and i take off my shirt and change the oil on the lawnmower with his help By: via poetry falcon

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i get toddler down for nap and fall asleep next to 6 building worlds in minecraft and talking By: via poetry falcon

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there is no telling what will happen By: via poetry falcon

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my dad is coming in an hour to take 6 to his place to watch movies and spend the night which i originally set up so the wife and i could get the toddler to bed and have a nice evening to ourselves at least that was the hope however now i feel it may be best used for me to sit down and listen to what she has to say without reacting because that seems to help her somehow which in turn helps me By: via poetry falcon

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and then at the park he practiced walking in them which was a totally foreign feeling for him and slowly got more used to them but he still seems a little unsure how to deal with this new phenomenon By: via poetry falcon

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i was blown away By: via poetry falcon

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we've never been able to get the toddler to wear a pair of shoes last winter he had on fleece booties under his full body snowsuit that looks like a little bear so he was fine but i've tried and tried and then just gave up but still the worry about winter coming so i've been explaining shoes to him whenever i get the chance and today he asked to put them on By: via poetry falcon

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the boys were so good yesterday just some small behavior stuff at the park with 6 but he also showed great care and thoughtfulness throughout the day and that has led into the same for today i am so proud of our little boys and everything they're learning and witnessing their talents erupt through their fresh being By: via poetry falcon

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having said that it is my heart wish that we are able to rejoin the same team and move forward together By: via poetry falcon

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it has to be acknowledged that things die without us being able to control it By: via poetry falcon

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we've been through several of these the past year every two or three weeks or s and i'm proud of us for getting through them in spite of the exhaustion and every other circumstance plotting agianst us but who knows maybe this is it By: via poetry falcon

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today has been no better with another small tiff before work but mostly hurting behind cold walls of misunderstanding and confusion By: via poetry falcon

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on top of it all he woke up early and of course being the martyr i am i took him and let her sleep By: via poetry falcon

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we were up three or four times in the night with toddler one time i walked around carrying him and singing for over an hour only to have him wake up twenty minutes later By: via poetry falcon

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this happens between humans By: via poetry falcon

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we then did our best to get the boys to bed By: via poetry falcon

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she got home from work and ate the indian food i had prepared then watched the boys while mowed the lawn By: via poetry falcon

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we spent the day texting back and forth in between everything else we have to worry about and it just seemed to get worse and worse By: via poetry falcon

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but instead it escalated more and more until i was receiving texts that baffled my mind and heart i knew she was feeling very hurt by the level of attack coming at me the contradictions hypocritions and unworkable analogies By: via poetry falcon

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usually we would text back forth and resolve the issue maybe i would apologize and she would say she's over it or vice versa or there could be more back and forth before some understanding is reached By: via poetry falcon

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yesterday morning i received instructions from a cranky wife and lashed out from own pain snag and we had a little fight before she went to work By: via poetry falcon

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the flame By: via poetry falcon

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the steam has only built and the kettle is whistling but no one can turn off the flame By: via poetry falcon

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of course it won't do that there is no escape it's all here as it is whether i like it or not By: via poetry falcon

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they get their time playing but i have to take it away due to roughness since we don't have money to fix these things and they want to hear me play but in actuality won't let me at which time i become extremely frustrated again and as i'm putting everything away pissed off they are fighting with each other and this day can just go fuck itself By: via poetry falcon

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try to play guitar again and have to give it up hand it over to the boys they can't let me play until they have their time with the thing i may never play again and have to quit the band but we'll wait and see By: via poetry falcon

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they cheer up and we listen to some of the tracks chopper sent By: via poetry falcon

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i give them chocolate and have some as well By: via poetry falcon

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and they don't let up one needs something the other spills everywhere i clean it up and there's a freak out about something else then i freak out but again someone needs something else now i'm kissing a boo boo again on and on feeling sorry for myself and stretched too thin will i ever get to play my goddamn guitar and if i do will i have enough energy to enjoy it these are the thoughts of an eclipse day parenting poet pussy crashing into the high wall of insanity yet sanely observing the jolly good show By: via poetry falcon

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get toddler down and check the sky but the clouds are too thick so get a couple things done and check again i can see the eclipse for a few seconds between heavy clouds and then it is completely obscured again so go back inside and try to get some stuff down but get incredibly tired i lay down and close my eyes just as toddler cries through the monitor way ahead of schedule By: via poetry falcon

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we eat lunch and i get the boys and cat inside the house so they don't look up at the sun by accident hoping to get toddler down for nap in time so 6 and i can put on the glasses and check it out but i might miss the whole thing and watch it online later i guess that's parenting and i'm not too worried about it i can feel it as much as anything By: via poetry falcon

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so that's what we did today we went outside and pretended to tighten screws and bang on things until he felt satisfied with our work then we went inside and toddler was content so 6 started in with his arguing and complaining back and forth like this i guess no one is getting what they want By: via poetry falcon

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6 moths or so ago our gate was broken from the cold winter harshness so toddler and i went to home depot and got the part we needed to fix it when we got home we grabbed some screwdrivers and repaired the gate together and to this day it's one of his favorite things to do he loves to fix stuff so if he's distraught sometimes i can say DO WE NEED TO GO FIX THE GATE and he will nod yes agreeing to go fix the gate By: via poetry falcon

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i hold toddler for a while as he cries into my eardrum the music of the aching universe and then remember a trick that i can use sometimes but not all the time or it loses its power By: via poetry falcon

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excited to dig and play some music i look for my opening but instead have a horrendous arguing match between 6 and myself trying to get through his homework up and down all over the place we finally accomplish the minimum requirement and he gets some ipod time so i run upstairs with toddler in tow and plug in the tiny practice amp and get out my shred machine to warm up a little bit toddler smashes his finger in a drawer just i'm playing the beginning of the first track through the stereo to jam along with so i kiss his finger which usually makes it all better but every time i try to play my guitar he screams and screams at me to stop so i play anyway for a while and then begin to put away the guitar but he screams even louder that i'm putting it away i ask him if he wants to play he screams NO snot and tears running down his face no matter what i try to do he is inconsolable there is no where to hide no way to make it ok By: via poetry falcon

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we're starting a band tracks coming down the pipe sound good i haven't played in months haven't been in a band in twenty years give or take By: via poetry falcon

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can't say i enjoy these excursions but they are an interesting way to get out of the house and shake up the routine and feel grateful when we're all done with it and i suppose it's something to write about By: via poetry falcon

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on the way home both boys pass out in the car and we arrive at our home and get everything inside but 6 is so tired he stumbles into the breezeway and tries to sleep on the messy couch but i pick him up and carry him while pulling off his shoes thinking i'll lay him on his bed but he wiggles free and yells at me not to watch him pee as my dad arrives with food and 6 finishes peeing and digs in while toddler falls back to sleep in his bed as i pour a duval and bow to the powerful pulchritude gliding over my palette like a majestic falcon By: via poetry falcon

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more coffee and then wife heads to a special event with a woman and clothing or something sister in law and i take the kids to the apartment complex pool i decide to skip toddlers nap based on several factors and he enjoys the pool and hot tub as does 6 then we go back to the apartment and have a snack while toddler begs and cries for mommy to come home and my dad is texting us asking what to bring for dinner and when as i try to balance crying toddler with questions from my dad and wondering when wife will be done By: via poetry falcon

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sister in law makes me an egg sandwich wife has coffee ready i don't remember the last time anyone cooked for me i start to cry and turn the corner to a belly laugh By: via poetry falcon

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i get another hour or so and wake to the sounds of puppy and children playing the coffee air compelling By: via poetry falcon

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6 goes back to bed auntie falls asleep in chair beneath a blanket i crawl back into my nest and there is a short period of sleep before 6 is back up we turn on cartoons and then toddler and wife are awake wife sends me to the other room for more sleep By: via poetry falcon

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the honking has turned to shouting and 6 is cold so he climbs into my warm covers in the little magic couch while we watch puppy dump a huge boom boom by the tv and then another by the ottoman and another next to that i get paper towels and the garbage can 6 gets his auntie and we clean it all up By: via poetry falcon

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a few hours until the next call of the kraken more toddler drama both of us up but then she gets him back to bed and i lay back down too and some device is making noises as i drift in and out then the puppy is scratching and squealing for a period of time i can't make myself move but sister in law takes him out and there's honking outside the window a few minutes later she returns with the dog somewhere in there 6 has woken up and banged into me twice By: via poetry falcon

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report from the front line: brutal night some children up late and later jarring me up and up again as well as bladder and other random occurrences a short doze off interrupted by wailing toddler which takes me 90 minutes and two tries to get back to sleep in their bed so i can go back to the short couch where the ache of the universe is my flesh mirror it is now 3:24am here By: via poetry falcon

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with final reciprocal fragments the ones we whistle through a hose discover the massive textures beneath red defense endings at the end of spiritual sleep source the squeeze of twinkle meals doubly so coming together from chaos particles next to the minister of fruit quite possible and visible simplified into bishops of citrus death essence over the double comet cluster wand By: via poetry falcon

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oldest and i are similar in that we just want to get the puppy and toddler in a good zone so we can do our important work on our computers so he puts on a funny video show and i find a truck for toddler to play with the puppy has a toy and we're all good for a little while By: via poetry falcon

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we arrive and have snacks and a margarita then they head out to the raceway to see who knows what i've heard different reports ranging from race cars demolition derby and even monster trucks but the main thing is that it will be loud and toddler can't handle loud so i hang back with him sister in laws oldest hangs back to care for their new puppy with some special needs By: via poetry falcon

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and 6 yells at me to drive more slowly because he has a headache and every bump hurts him until he finally yells that i need to go absolutely slow or stop or drive on the grass on the side of the freeway mommy finally asks him to close his eyes and he commands us to SHUT UP By: via poetry falcon

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we alert 6 of our plans so he can get ready to get ready and he can't handle his excitement regresses to naughty freak out mode i don't blame him but it's bad and i'm trying to get all the crap ready that we need to bring to actually stay overnight which seem like half our stuff if not all baby monitors sound machines diapers wipes extra clothes swimming stuff food margarita ingredients to cheer up sister on and on hours of this and wife finally gets back with more supplies and things we need and somehow we all load into the car and take off i am dripping with sweat just like i was this morning when i ran over 5k and head feels like cement i'm so tired but we drive away cheerful with bouts of cranky By: via poetry falcon

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we have lunch and i vacuum and clean while the boys play and wife relaxes then we get an invitation from her sister to go to a raceway and see demolition derby and stay overnight By: via poetry falcon

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it is terribly uncomfortable and yet i feel good having a calming effect on our household that i'm not totally fucking it all up and that it is hard no matter who you are and that i've let go of a lot and learned a lot and and and and and and By: via poetry falcon

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i return and wife is upset as well as 6 while toddler is happy to see me and i get the report the saga of the two hours i was away juicy with emotional details and i listen intently to someone else describe the experience i often have each day By: via poetry falcon

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my time out of the house is cut short by strong lethargy and reports of chaos from home By: via poetry falcon

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sent out to run errands and do whatever the bank ain't open yet so head down the street and drop of some stuff at the place for the guy to pick up later and then over to my fav coffee shop that i haven't been to in many years they only take cash and it's self owned voluntarily working their shifts and doing it the way they want the goods are half the price and twice the quality of anywhere and it is a tiny space hence the name matchbox as i sit at the small table enjoying no internet connection and buddha statue in the window next to me and write whatever tothe classical music and odd conversations between retirees and artists and musicians By: via poetry falcon

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while trying to make lunch i hear 6 playing with toddler and being very nice to him showing him things and they both sound so content so i keep with my preparations and when lunch is almost i ready i go out back to let them know and find several patio tiles pulled up with gaping holes beneath where they were searching for worms because they love worms By: via poetry falcon

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as a wondering wave insouciant apogee checking the blobs of impulse victims and sleep bowing at the waterfall where stopping began the axis nest nova straying ecliptic in seasons of burning emblems ineffable fury of specific silence By: via poetry falcon

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birth and death of the snowblower: wife bought a brand new snowblower a few years ago with some kind of special deal when we had one child and we used it that winter but the next two winters found me shoveling instead not liking the thing at all and not really feeling like it was less work or helped my back since i still had to shovel a lot of stuff it couldn't handle so last winter we tried to sell it when there was still a good chance of lots of snow and we had several people look at it and lowball us so we gave up but this week she put it back on the craigslist because she is a craigslist grandmaster and had more lowballer but this morning a guy got off work from the airport and was looking for a snowblower for his daughter he came over right away the toddler was even awake yet and he started it and checked it out and bought it for the advertised price i helped him lift into the back of his truck and off he went and now we can use the money to scratch the surface of house repair

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my dad gets a new nerf shooter for 6 and we get a toy lawnmower for toddler both boys ecstatic for something new as mercury continues backward and the eclipse is pumping up emotions insecurities projections i can feel it my bones the reactions coming from fear out of open space innocents we are behind this curtain of illusion and i just want one minute without stress to poop By: via poetry falcon

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the endless barrage has worn me down i can't write about all of it and i don't feel like trying it was nice to have a night off from the toddler but tonight was back to work and as i walked circles upon the cracked concrete driveway weeds flourishing through the crevices an infinite road of everything the same lay before me the frogs singing their night chorus the maple shadows on the white garage door cast from the street lamp but mimicking a moonlit effect By: via poetry falcon

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sky don't hurt where parts join ecstasy and my purpose is crunched across light to find you a pine standing way up north emanating lakes of herons in empty love and grandfather morning kissed to a bed of drowning dream rhymes about what should a shitwhow be watchin' when real beauty is going through leaks in the tough joy and manufactured irritation is a carpool to general repulsion coming true nowhere because stunts are stunts in high heels By: via poetry falcon

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spectrum elegant mono-tornadic synchronous ceremonial triptych triangle goats ever thankful to themselves and the gorgons of disappointment for becoming infrangible blocks of nomenclature fondled by number storms mixing teal queen professor pawns crackling against the short roar crescendo crust anomalous to her own excoriated spinning thoughts squeezed in double binary lion crux protection commanded somewhere from dusty flutes of fuchsia snooze and freedom rising radishes splashing herself a little more each time to plank in pink heaven while simultaneous perfect puppet gums of electric wisdom suck force through clarity liquid unable to use aeons of unknown patterns appearing scientific in the minimal twinkle and colourless gulch By: via poetry falcon

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details like this are what i would want to know if you were writing a channel like this therefore i offer them By: via poetry falcon

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i don't leave the house often so when i do i take the opportunity to wear my watch wedding ring and wrist mala things that get in the way of changing diapers and playing rough the watch is a very nice one that my wife picked out for me and my mom bought me as a christmas gift a few years ago when i was applying for a supervisor position before we got pregnant with our second child the ring is low end functional stainless steel with a secret band of red gold you can see if you look really close and the mala is crystal with rose quartz many mantras done on it reminds me to be aware observe look directly at thoughts the mind whatever is occurring right here on this dot By: via poetry falcon

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my dad takes 6 to the mall for video games rides and junk food toddler and i are heading out to pick up necessities we ran out of coffee this morning and haven't had whisky in the house for too long probably get some food too but definitely coffee the ink of the inner page By: via poetry falcon

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no running this morning because i'm supposed to rest my legs after a few days and everyone seemed to have slept better but that doesn't mean anything and still uncertain how to continue from here everyone has these little conundrums plastered to the walls of their lives this is one of mine By: via poetry falcon

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right now i am not in the backyard carrying a human being singing a lullaby instead i am sitting next to my goddamn wife watching a goddamn show drinking a goddamn gin eating whatever goddamn thing i can find because i am hungry from running and not sleeping and being screamed at all day until it was almost funny and i will write some stuff that needs to be written cheers By: via poetry falcon

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toddler saying MINE and having tripwire tantrums but he could beatbox before he could talk By: via poetry falcon

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this day has been filled with seemingly outer and inner difficulties and i can't explain anything but there are sounds shapes colors smells and feels all around either sticky with glue on their handles or slathered with slippery lubricant and no one is deciding where they get to stick or slide so you might dislocate your arm or your tongue may start on fire from some wholly other circumstance not included in this brief description By: via poetry falcon

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my left arm playing star wars figures with 6 my right arm playing cars with toddler this after hours of tantrums By: via poetry falcon

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a harp tree chanting what she said was the sound of a sloth shouting CALLIGRAPHY MIRROR from a jet torch of respect beyond person punchers in white shade nesting wolverines prevail internally against houses of tartar jangles asymmetrical long blonde shards that have that special mountain burn By: via poetry falcon

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i keep writing stuff and deleting it everything is moving so fast nothing is static By: via poetry falcon

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toddler calms slightly and 6 takes over frustrated he has do homework and if i can get them both to some kind of plateau i need to call again and wait on hold again and probably argue with some people about how to get this vasectomy appointment changed no one calls me back and no one knows how to go rescedule By: via poetry falcon

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writing all this in flamethrower mode which means just going for it as fast as i can because i have to get back to everything else but want to spend at least a couple of minutes with the soothing clicks of the keyboard By: via poetry falcon

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it's not just the idea of giving up the running again it's all the things that are continually given up for hours days weeks months years all the effort put into helping everyone get through what they're going through and having no space to even really look at what i'm going through so yeah i break down and crumble into tears and let it all wash over me and the toddler can cry for a while he will anyway even if i give him exactly what he wants that is still a good reason for him to cry anyone with a toddler near the age of two knows this or has gone through this By: via poetry falcon

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trying to write this at all is unducing toddler tantrums By: via poetry falcon

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she takes a shower to get ready for work and i'm left with the crying toddler and everything thought and feeling pummeling me until i cry head in hands and somehow this allows the toddler to chill out and he dances around singing a song By: via poetry falcon

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i listen closely and watch my thoughts closely without saying anything even though i want to scream i want to cry i want to do things i can't comprehend some release from the tight fist [or is it a claw] of parenthood where there is no space to take care of myself and if i do it anyway i mess with everyone else's mojo By: via poetry falcon

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the weather app said i might get a thunderstorm again this morning but ended up only some sprinkles and when i returned everyone was up and in the one minute i took to shower every person and the cat needed to be in our bathroom we have only one and it is not always occupied but seems to be whenever i need it then my wife has a talk with me about the running waking up the boys and her and i don't know what to do with myself By: via poetry falcon

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it's not helpful the push and push back codifies both sides into ridiculous peanut brittle until something snaps and no one gets to enjoy anything By: via poetry falcon

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now i know what it feels like to have someone go total bleeding heart liberal on my ass or not By: via poetry falcon

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the park is a very sad place to be sometimes By: via poetry falcon

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when it's done i'll post it you can have it free poetry free poems for sale good or not i'll be done with it maybe i'll read it again someday By: via poetry falcon

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i have this goddamn poem i'm working on i like the poem i want to keep working on it and possibly finish it but i can't get at it there it is just sitting on my computer screen waiting for me to rearrange and redact until it sings a song i haven't heard before but sounds familiar like new strings By: via poetry falcon

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at the park again we immediately have takers on the nerf guns shooting each other point blank and crying i hate the things but a teacher was here with her lot last week and said they need to figure all this stuff out eventually anyway so let em which helped me relax but it's still not relaxing By: via poetry falcon

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i run inside quick to get lunch started when i return 6 has filled the sandbox with water and toddler has indulged in the mud By: via poetry falcon

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two nights in a row lacking sleep running anyway because i'd be tired either way makes for an interesting combination of extremely tired and awakened senses as the boys play in the tiny turtle sandbox and i attempt to write with my laptop on the picninc table instead of thumbing my phone all day we've gotten through 6's math english and chinese homework so he could play his ipod and now play outside for fresh air and sunshine but writing doesn't last long with frequent interruptions i can't get anything going really so i whip out the trimmer and dazzle the toddler as 6 hoses down the sandbox preparing to create whatever he wants By: via poetry falcon

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and i'm happy to be in this perfect mess with you By: via poetry falcon

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sometimes finding time to write around here is liking fighting a fascist government always vigilant always leaping toward any chance of an opening just for a few inches of progress a few minutes of feeling the fingers fly on the keyboard like the soaring condor or maybe a vulture is more apropos since death of this and that in nondual awareness beyond good and bad the ten directions the three or four times nonarising everything made up every storyline a bundle of emotions with half lacerated thoughts wagging in the wind of a city full of them a thick salve of ignorance slathered over the gaps to keep the game going keep the spikes out of sight keep the juicy parts titilating so attachement to desire can ride up and down and give us the highs and lows we crave so much the contrast that confirms we're alive even though we are not until we realize we are not but dreaming life vividly projecting this film from our karma for our own entertainment however sad and mad and glad that may se

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another bedtime saga has left my arms and back weak from exertion the toddler needing me to perform for him more than an hour's worth of service and he still didn't fall asleep wife took over and suffered as well until he finally zonked out and that's all i want to say about it tonight By: via poetry falcon

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my artist friends asks if he can use more of my text to apply for the Young Blood Initiative and i say YES and I'M IN but i don't even know what it is i just trust him so i look it up and it looks really cool a little scary so that's a good sign By: via poetry falcon

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toddler we wakes up and we gotta get out there's sunshine out there and this stuff will have to wait By: via poetry falcon

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i've got writing to work on but our activities thus far have left the house in shambles and me far behind in many respects so time to slam some cold brew and be grateful i have a power protection amulet to wear in america these days it was made especially for me by a taoist shaman lineage holder and is unexplainably potent By: via poetry falcon

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the urge passes no one will change their mind and i can't swear like that around here 6 is already a master of saying OH FUCK whenever he gets hurt and offending his gramma my wife's mom and we coach him to say ouch or darnit but it's hard to beat that word when you really get hurt By: via poetry falcon

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feeling a strong urge to get out the guitar or ukule or drums or just do it accapella and sing NAZI PUNKS FUCK OFF in some kind of stylized way even though i know a lot of muscians have probably done or are doing it there is still that glowing ember of desire By: via poetry falcon

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if we say something about time like WHAT TIME IS IT or IS IT TIME TO GO the toddler looks at his wrist and then at us and says GO and points toward the nearest exit By: via poetry falcon

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6 wakes up and cleans the living room then announces he will be vacuuming next and we give the accolades he deserves even though he's only doing it to get time on his ipod it's a big change from just begging all day and whining about everything else so then we work on his english together and do some math problems he loses his focus and gets frustrated mulitple times gets close to losing his ipod but turns it around so we can finish his chinese homework and he wins the prize happy and proud By: via poetry falcon

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poem from 2 years ago: immortal ebony scorpion good blade white heart emerald bone melody fallen from falcons naked in clouds of genderless dot sky fang screaming emblems as orgasmic freedom jewel surprise frenzy brown sound torpedos in horsefly hot crunch meniscus gin rich it means something in chinese where crummy jigsaw beds uphold cyclops pope funk draconian canoe power pawn pump crushing coconut trophies in squared stool turbo permanence like a wrong dog redacted in double infinite eternity By: via poetry falcon

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no rain no lightning no thunder just wet pavement and cool humidity beneath the broken cloud sky By: via poetry falcon

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skipped running this morning to rest and heal eagerly anticipating the next 5am so i check the weather app it says rain and if i'm lucky a thunderstorm which is my favorite weather along with extreme heat maybe the storms mirror the inner engine super nova that keeps this colic baby screaming but i've always loved severe weather and will dive into death to save someone not out of any kind of understanding but just dumb bleeding heart one time i had my dad stop the car on an icy freeway and i ran across the lanes of traffic slipping on the ice but not falling i ran down the embankment to pull survivors out of an upside down van the large heavy snow flakes pummeling me i could hear them hit the windshield of the van as i peered through and saw no one the engine idling By: via poetry falcon

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toddler still saying DODDY or DADDY or in between for good portion of each day and now has begun belting into mostly gibberistic songs peppered with DODDY and i feel it's a survival mechanism to keep me connected and sane because it is very cute endearing heartwarming to the center of his world and that wears off quickly at times the contrast being a steel stiff learning curve maybe even a blade with honey dripping from it By: via poetry falcon

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my dad and his friends say THE BEST PART OF RETIREMENT IS SUNDAY NIGHT and i can relate By: via poetry falcon

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my dad brings us pizza from our favorite joint and two dongles to try out in the gifted bluray player and the pizza works but the dongles don't so the new free bluray player that we don't need is costing us twenty bucks for a new dongle so we say screw it we'll just use our old one and if it breaks we'll buy a new dongle and i only say all this because the word dongle is new to me and some other reasons i'm sure By: via poetry falcon

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i can't help but interject my own weird ideas into the lego playtime which irritates 6 usually and makes toddler laugh but he's not sure why he just thinks i sound funny if i don't do this i have a tendency to space out in reaction to the strict rules of 6 and his world By: via poetry falcon

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toddler wakes up 6 is done with movie waiting for mommy we compose the poetry of legos By: via poetry falcon

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i fell asleep instead By: via poetry falcon

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in a great reversal of good luck my wife wants to get the groceries and has a plan so not only do i get out of that task but i receive her good judgement and plentiful variety when the groceries get here and i should probably do some poetic house work but i'll probably do some poetic writing instead at least for a while By: via poetry falcon

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i usually choose silence By: via poetry falcon

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the balance of playing with the boys while accomplishing anything in the particular room we happen to be playing in allowing wife to order school shoes for 6 which is a much longer process than anyone could ever imagine getting 6 to do homework while wife mows the lawn as she's as desperate for exercise as i am and we finally get toddler down for nap and 6 a chill out kids movie so i can decide what tshirt to wear at the grocery store and what song to listen to in the car for the five minute drive By: via poetry falcon

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the party had great food rich salads and interesting vegetables and the husband brews beer as a hobby and had three on tap for us a pale ale a rye hefeweizen and a mocha porter all three were astoundingly good and fresh mixed with the flavor of parental party stress By: via poetry falcon

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i know there holes all over this story and everything written here and every philosophical point of view that is shared accidentally or purposely but that's writing jump in and be a sitting duck for anyone to pick apart that's why it's don't writing because there's nothing here really By: via poetry falcon

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even though he probably was being too wild and tough and needed a time out there is no excuse for that kind of stigma and public shaming fucking bullshit and it raised the nine hundred headed hydra anger i have against humans shaming each other not that i'm at all innocent of it and my wife felt like they ganged up on him which broke my heart and opened my vigilante heart machete awareness but then i hung out with him and was absolutely terrible not listening at all and being totally wild and abusive to everyone and everything around him so we talked with him and gave him some direction and chances to turn it around but he was off and the toddler freaked out so we left toddler screaming loud all the way home the rest of us in silence By: via poetry falcon

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some parents reprimanded 6 and gave him a time out and one of the grandmothers then introduced him to us WATCH OUT FOR THIS ONE HES A NAUGHTY BOY she said not knowing we were his parents and then the story shifted By: via poetry falcon

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playing tanks with 6 while folding clothes and trying to get shower so we can go to a friends house tragedy and house warming parties By: via poetry falcon

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i'm cranky wife wakes up cranky and racists drive a car into a crowd By: via poetry falcon

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i run early in spite of reasonability take a shower and try to lay down again but my eyes close and everyone wakes up i make pancakes and coffee yawning while the boys bicker and wife helps them then 6 and i clean the living room when he's done he works on english with his mom the toddler eating all morning anything he can find and we can't find the bag of candy from the parade with the new toothbrushes in it it's been a week and we've looked everywhere mercury retrograde and the washing machine sink drain is still overflowing we want to call and get it taken care of but money is tight for a while maybe in october when we get our property tax refund we can do a plumbing overhaul but how do we get through until then i get out the snake and the plunger and get the water to drain but i know it's not fixed we clean and fix various other things and wife gets toddler down for nap we're all crashing so we throw a movie on for 6 and wife lays down i get 6 set up with sn

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in a boiling wave of crucial languor clouds play bbq sitting in hockey pants end over end over equipment and emergency and parading publisher ransom deftly like a buffalo blackest black the pulp father potato pole cannot even clockwise assemble concurrent collisions the cupcakes of flesh mean nothing unless tuned to discovery and proclaiming howling hubs of gamma club death heads with whale eyes and sicilian thunderbolt squares speeding evocations in the spiritual brine a spoon tree of red mural aura mind dial vanilla clockwise in the metric sauce forcing asses to teach rock to working mothers in hilarity from blind orange gun ticklers who knew the icons from original water By: via poetry falcon

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boys asleep time to pee and eat more the old running body consuming more calories than not in the bold silence after everything By: via poetry falcon

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play date play date beautiful children brightly conflicting resolving like any phenomena and adult humans say sounds to hear sounds in good air clean sky solid earth heart hurt all the way smile sweat laughter sun By: via poetry falcon

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i work up a sweet sweat vacuuming toddler observing from a distance sucking on his apple sauce packet listening to music 6 on his ipod buidling worlds not that don't ever vacuum but it's nice to have a reason and then the dust takes a seat in somewhere deep in my sinuses and the snot volcano has become for a while but this could be just the thing these old sinuses needed especially after two days in a row of running i think to myself as the coffee tastes so so good and feels like enlightenment but i know better it is just that as is everything without and within or some junk like that By: via poetry falcon

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if your receiver is blocked, sometimes the only option is to be a sender By: via poetry falcon

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i'm excited for our play date with friends later today but 6 has no idea he does better when he doesnt know and it's just a surprise By: via poetry falcon

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the Libertine was right dammnit 9 going to 6 from the enneagram but i have a different take on that truth now not so solid fixed good vs bad but something else something open to totality and willing to become any tool for the situation or not but the running and other exercises plus meditation and writing are the remedy to fixated sticky suckville but they cannot always be accessed so then there is some other message to receive but it's hard when your cosmic voicemail full By: via poetry falcon

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slightly over sleeping is unexpected indulgence i spring up and make coffee sausage eggs holding toddler and explaining every detail which seems to soothe his storms lately By: via poetry falcon

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i shower meditate crawl in bed with 6 because he always loves company By: via poetry falcon

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i've done e everything it takes to be here sweat dripping off my shaved head stif muscles loosening stride opening up letting it happen another surrender to the elements as the fog rolls in beneath the waning gibbous moon it feels like a hug from a loving mother By: via poetry falcon

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and there is a large wet spot on my tshirt where the toddler drooled while falling asleep so i know what i'm talking goddamnit By: via poetry falcon

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sitting up with toddler while mommy and 6 fall to sleep and i wish them a good night's rest so 6 can feel better and mommy can wake up refreshed and even though i am very tired and desire sleep there is an involuntary sense of contentment and gratitude for everything we have and everyone we know and that we can experience anything for that matter just basic fundamental good grateful contentment that cuts through so cleanly and simply that it feels corny and an ego might want to scoff and stab it with sarcasm or put it down or find some shame and juicy drama poison but it's unshakable really as far as i can tell i just forget about it all the time By: via poetry falcon

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toddler has been saying DADDY all day in a very loud british accent By: via poetry falcon

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i want to fall asleep next to 6 and we were almost there but toddler needs me and he's not tired in spite of short nap and tons of activity today so i sit with and wait for the calm wait for the signal that he's getting close enough By: via poetry falcon

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i've heard famous writers say NEVER USE A THESAURUS but what a fun rule to break as well as the rest don't ruin your writing or music or your art or your life by following a rule or advice use those suckers for inspiration and have fun this is a message to myself By: via poetry falcon

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reading bedtime books to 6 and i desperately want him to pick the children's illustrated thesaurus but he never does By: via poetry falcon

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3 neighbor kids come over and i am assaulted with questions as they grab the nerf guns and bag of bullets and erupt into screaming banshees of innocent yet nefarious havoc and as the sun becomes lessened a gigantic castle shaped cloud consumes the evening sun offering glimpses of its warmth and then concealing them again By: via poetry falcon

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then we work on 6's homework but toddler demands i paint with him i jockey between rooms trying to help them both but toddler melts down for twenty minutes inconsolable probably too tired to handle it and 6 says his head hurts but then is up and playing again i sit with toddler to paint he calms for a bit then 6 needs me again to help others homework mommy dings me she's on the way home By: via poetry falcon

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water colors with toddler listening to new music from our friend in pennsylvania while 6 counts his money saying HOW RICH AM I hoping for a new nerf gun from target By: via poetry falcon

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at least we played in the sun before the rain got here By: via poetry falcon

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an hour later 6 walks in and nonchalantly wakes the toddler up and it's just like the old days and i'm angry as hell because sleeping toddlers don't just appear it takes a lot of work so i explain to 6 what the problem is and he misunderstood what i said earlier but i have to leave his space in order to not shame him to death the frustration is real and not helpful so toddler and i go sit in the breezeway him yawning me slowly cooling down and seeing it's no big deal maybe toddler will have easy bedtime this evening or even both of them but i'm skeptical of silver linings because in my experience things either get better worse or stay the same and there is no guarantee they will go the way you want or think By: via poetry falcon

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i put my free hand on his head to steady it and he instantly falls asleep so i quickly/slowly get us to the bed and gingerly lay down with him but he wakes up angry we go through the process two more times me whispering to myself YOU GOTTA BE FUCKING KIDDING ME and then i finally get him to lay down and sleep that's it By: via poetry falcon

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we adjust ourselves several times so he can find a comfortable way to fall asleep on my shoulder or chest but he's got the goddamn flashlight and won't let go it keeps getting in the way and making uncomfortable for both of us By: via poetry falcon

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toddler was so tired by nap time he was falling asleep with his head up and then his head would drop and he would pull it back up he finally stuck his finger in his nose attempting to keep himself awake that way but it backfired and became a kind of kickstand for his head so here is sleeping sitting on my arm with his finger in his nose holding a flashlight in the other hand as i walk him around singing the lullaby and trying to laugh but i can't hold it in i laugh and he smiles and then giggles his eyes fluttering open and shut By: via poetry falcon

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everything's a rental and it's not rent to own By: via poetry falcon

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usually when i am able to get a run and it is life changing and i can't wait to run more someone gets sick or is teething and keeps us up all night and there is no way to continue with any momentum so 6 has a headache today and i hope my prediction is wrong we have him taking a hot shower drinking vitamin C and herbal tea chicken soup for lunch most likely everything we can to soothe him and help him rest well By: via poetry falcon

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mercury retrograde starting around saturday the 12th we've already had both cars in the shop last week and lost and found several things disconnected reconnected with several people as happens but always a little early for us maybe as soon as mercury starts to slow down the stuff happens and then my little red flag goes off and i look it up and sure enough there it is one week away By: via poetry falcon

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we get mommy off to her conference and a second batch of coffee made but the boys can't find their groove so i flip on pbs kids and there it is their groove their favorite show so i go shave my head and beard and rinse everything off again purifying the vessel today i guess By: via poetry falcon

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insecure toddler needs daddy to hold him or to sit on daddy's lap and eat his eggs and toast while daddy sips black coffee feeling it hit every spot that was just massaged by the open road in the dark of ancient predawn By: via poetry falcon

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everyone wakes up a few minutes after i'm back inside the house dripping with clear sweat i rinse off in a super quick shower and begin preparations for another day of just the boys By: via poetry falcon

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i run a couple miles surprised at the ease of it i thought it would be big fat me trying to get back into running again but the body was so happy to run and didn't want to stop i wasn't even winded but did get to that level of sweat that smells clear as if the toxins are expelled By: via poetry falcon

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i know i have the willpower i've done it so many times but the fear of making the wrong choice is palpable the fear of returning from a crappy or great run to a house full of pissed off half asleep people me needing a shower desperately and a glass of water and some food because i run best on empty but having to carry toddler screaming into my ear drum and help 6 get what he needs and save the wife from them both while the cat begs me to watch him eat his food By: via poetry falcon

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i wake up at ten to 5 to pee the perfect time to go for a run i have to decide if i'm going to push through this lethargy and weighty desire to go back to sleep By: via poetry falcon

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but coffee is the day sizzle coffee coffee coffee coffee my addiction is duly confessed somewhat due to being parental extremis mondi somewhat just a plain old addiction to being alive and high on something anything but i have spent my share of time off the bean plenty of it years at a time that were quite lovely and no big deal about not having coffee but it's fun these days to love and love harshly the black inky drink and someday oh someday i will wake and make the perfect brew strong and brave and i will begin to write or read getting thoroughly engrossed before taking that first sip and the flame will kick in and the fire will blaze up and the writing will ride itself into whatever it is to become as i witness this feast of the sensual distilled into tiny emblems on the pure white page By: via poetry falcon

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gin is my night sizzle is it elmer that makes it so the one from the unpublished novel brother to john the writer too serious both breakfast lovers of high coffee and bacon enough to barf you out but brilliant fools in each their own way and i find myself in them even though i have neglected them to care for these little boys someday i will return and let them wail their existence a primal yawp of who they are for all to read and hear By: via poetry falcon

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rain splashing their sizzle on maple leaves outside our open windows the boys finally asleep wife on open old dell laptop working on work with sad tired eyes that mirror my own i offer her another pink ninja and she says she was about say how she would love another pink ninja i'm hammered off of one gin which shows me just how much fucking stress i drank today and after 6 fell asleep next to me i had to pee and then i notice wife awake and which means toddler asleep and my stomach is hungry for fat and salt which is the macho thing to eat when you're stressed out so i have some of what the boys love cottage cheese and pickles and slam a bunch of water and kiss the wife goodnight but a twinkle in my mind wants to write so a pour another small finger of gin and slay the keyboard with my gentle machete for sanity for myself for others who have any kind of interest for everything everywhere all the time and all that as it is By: via poetry falcon

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one gin 45 min writing message dr during toddler bath to get appt fixed and myself wiped out By: via poetry falcon

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oh my fuschia juice bullet cloud my helmet with your coded cosmic perfect shape condition and roar me inward an ultimage fondle quake pain periodical on the crystal fringe coffee bone we are sideways in diablo halo balance anti-hickey-club lineage jewel glowing golden like sour puppets at the pulp dong flurry darts clutch the moon from maximal lakes of crinkle space like galaxy pleasure pods burning shitheels in a swamp lantern fusing a triple sweatsuit slut spear in mile long master flares over the weasels found sleeping freely in the mild fronds of spoon shaped wavebands smooch nothing but rubicund unit masters in green everything By: via poetry falcon

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the endgame is an equinox of algorithms numbing blank the interstellar froth from pony doves and their stingslather old martinis of shame a luxurious dancing torch of notation amazement from bone love flavour is a karma canoe captain whining impulses behind a sash encircling uranus fields of grueling paper ice squares eclipsing pencil pulchritude colossal and fragile bowls of gambit fever thrust fragments of expansion and storms spacing storms in fresh lettuce images midnight ringing the overwhelm to nowhere lightning elder pony master blazing library chess wanger adamantine fork in the perigee gust melting deep and ambient By: via poetry falcon

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in my canopy pants i COUGH and SHOUT and like a skull of butter i monkey hump every COFFEE i discover painting lies onto EMBLEM embroidered imbroglio batter fuck chucking dongle shit shat from mac vs windows of sex crying boredom rolling trigger whipper whapping the old pallid GORGON with sluts By: via poetry falcon

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one thing i didn't mention was that after the toddler had his initial excitement he reverted to wanting me to hold him and he wanted to sit on my lap and i have to say it felt good and terrible at the same time like everything when looked at closely when seen clearly it's like hot and cold water being poured on your head at the same time you can choose one the other both neither etc it's just there and really real as it is the arrogance i express in describing how hard my life is sometimes is obvious to me in that i have it so incredibly good in comparison to vast and countless realms of beings and yet in being honest with what is actually according to this person this human who somewhat ego somewhat beyond and definitely a mixture tuned into and connected to so many variables all at the same time there is suffering there is suffering behind everyhing we do say and think and sometimes it's right in front or off to the side needling us but it's there and needs our at

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toddler is beyond excited to see mommy when she gets home running up and hugging her kissing her and dancing around she gets changed and eats the beef broccoli with rice i've prepared remarking how wonderful it tastes and how hungry she was then she sends me to the liquor store where i wonder around looking at things even though i know i'm going to purchase a certain gin and a certain 12 pack of beer based on total value acquired and knowing both of our palettes very well but since she sent me with the 20 we made from selling the baby gate on craigslist today i throw in a box of quality red wine that is currently on a promotional deep discount and head home to prepare her a pink ninja to sip while playing borad games with the boys and i take my gin straight no chaser motherfucker By: via poetry falcon

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in spite of this day toddler now calls me DODDY when he wants something maybe i'll warm up to the cute soon By: via poetry falcon

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still can't get away from toddler he wants me to paint with him but maybe it's just what i need By: via poetry falcon

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instead i persuade toddler to paint with water colors and 6 joins the scene to quietly play silly putty a brief respite so far By: via poetry falcon

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6 is bouncing off the walls instigating toddler into frenzies of hysterical boo hoo and i should probably just put on some movies and start drinking but i'm too goody goody and we have nothing to drink By: via poetry falcon

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and it's not getting better By: via poetry falcon

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he wakes up whining demanding and screaming nothing is right and then he wants to play downstairs so we all go down and not a minute passes by and something has flipped his switch again he erupts into a sonic volcano By: via poetry falcon

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something like forty five minutes of this and he finally falls asleep and i get him situated on his bed and lay down elsewhere By: via poetry falcon

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toddler becomes even more tired and we have to postpone the rest of homework to get him his nap but it is not an easy task whatsoever as my nerves have already taken a beating and my head is out to implode from stress and the barometer but he needs me to carry him and he needs to give me contradicting commands so he can get angry and tell me NO and whine and cry more and it takes everything i've got to coo and say ITS OK in a soft reassuring voice when i really just want to scream and smash stuff and throw everything into the river By: via poetry falcon

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he finally settles on yogurt the third time we ask him and proceeds to make a mess with the creative force that only toddlers possess By: via poetry falcon

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the rain pours down outside our open windows and 6 tries to help decipher what the in hell the toddler could possibly want By: via poetry falcon

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a brief calm before the next storm is misleading By: via poetry falcon

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during all of this i eat crappy warmed up spaghetti with garlic toast as the toddler screams and points in various directions and 6 explains why he will be the boss of me today for a change By: via poetry falcon

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6 is so utterly obsessed that there is no existence beyond the singular desire burning in his mind and out of that ignorant myopic view comes a storm of confused rage which invites toddler to a similar course and i take all of this wrath over and over up and down the zeniths and nadirs until i'm shaking with frustration and trying not to take it out on them i would never hurt them but i will confess that there several moments passed where i thought i was insane or heading there quickly and that i might explode and die of stress but the awareness holding everything just so is powerful and by resting in the flames of hell i don't mean to say it is restful but that nothing needs to be done there is nothing to do By: via poetry falcon

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but everything hinges on when and how 6 will get his ipod and the random obscure demands from toddler that lead to utter frustration for everyone By: via poetry falcon

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we head to the park to beat the rain and end up playing in the rain for ninety minutes before heading home to do homework and eat lunch By: via poetry falcon

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bath time for toddler i admire the grey and silver hairs taking over the territories of my skull By: via poetry falcon

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boys watch a movie with mom while i fold clothes thinking of friends in anguish By: via poetry falcon

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as i prepare their tenders and chicken teriyaki for wife and i enjoy their giggles and await the screams of a bad choice By: via poetry falcon

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warms my heart to see 6 finding ways to play with toddler that makes them both laugh so i give them space to play away from me but i know it comes with a price as when i go to check on them there could be any number of crazy plans in operation and thus it is By: via poetry falcon

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we end up downstairs which is good so i can hang the diaper shells to dry and get the pods in the dryer as they play with amalgamations of myriad donated toys that we are so fortunate to possess and will be gifting forward and i scoop the litter box and empty the dehumidifiers before we bring the gigantic box of tiny legos up the stairs to build different realms and i sneak off for a quick shower while they're occupied and i don't hear anyone screaming while i cleanse this two day old dirty body but i come out and there's some trouble nothing we can't handle as we decide we are all. wet hungry and chicken tenders are in the menu By: via poetry falcon

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as the sun fills my aura with energy 6 feels hot and drained and heads inside to play lego shooters toddler awakens to join the battle By: via poetry falcon

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6 and i play chess on the picnic table in the backyard sunshine while toddler naps 6 still learning the energy of the characters but intuitively making some very good moves and also terrible blunders just like me when i used to play HECTOR the chessmaster everyday for 8 hours a day he beat me silly and i would learn a lot and buy him coffee and snacks and every once in a while he would spot me a piece or two and still best me but i did win one time with a handicap and he praised me up and down for the little operation i came up with By: via poetry falcon

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almost ordered a dongle glad i called my dad first By: via poetry falcon

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working with the urge and the desire to have a break or more breaks from the boys on the one hand i am so lucky to have all this time with them i will never get it back but on the other hand i'm with them so much it can be detrimental to my sanity and ability to have an objective point of view so i want a break and then i see that attachement i let it float by and return to whatever needs to happen next or their smile or their fighting or a diaper change or a game we're playing and doing music and art with them is one of my favorite sanity sanitizers but they aren't always into that jam and i don't blame my wife because she can barely get in the door and change and eat and play a little while i finally get a chance to clean everything that's been driving me crazy as well as the the dishes from the just cooked and consumed meal and then it's bedtime just like that which probably take the most precise parenting skills of any i've acquired and yet by that time

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body was ready to run at 5 am but i couldn't bear the thought of the boys waking up and my wife having to lose her morning sleep to care for them so i tried to sleep a bit more then spent the rest of the morning listening to 6 beg for ipod helping learn how to clean the living room helping him with his math english and chinese homework until finally he accomplishes everything and i get to sit on hold for half an hour to reschedule aforementioned appointment yet again as toddler stands on a stool playing with non sharp utensils in a drawer and then discovers he can tip the stool a little bit and it feels cool until of course he slips and performs this bizarre looking scissor fall bumping his and other parts on the way down after which i hold him and soothe for many minutes By: via poetry falcon

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6 regained his ipod yesterday and did well building a neighborhood in minecraft and giving the pod back without an imbroglio but then could not stop thinking and talking about it when he might get more time on the ipod which is part of the reason he lost in the first place the utter obesssion that arises in him and i can relate when i frist discovered atari and video arcades it blew me away and when my friends got the first nintendo and i stayed overnight that's all we did and when i went home it was all i could think about but we didn't have one and weren't going to get one for another year or so and i suffered during that time so i know how it feels and we do our best to work with it don't we all have obsessions addictions we work with you don't have to drink alcohol to be an alcoholic if you know what i mean By: via poetry falcon

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enough rest is enough and i am grateful even though it doesn't solve everything it's one less thing as i wait on hold to try and reschedule the vasectomy again last time they transferred me and i left a message and haven't heard back in a week but we have to figure this out so that i can get the procedure before the end of the year having used our deductible and hopefully not right on the first day of school with everything that entails and then i'll have a very sore crotch for a few days she said just nap and watch netflix the first day taking percoset and some kind of stool softener because the percoset makes you constipated and that's the last thing you want to be is pushing out a hard poop when your whole groin area is in painful pain and the guy comes back from the hold and says someone will call me back and gives me my phone number with one wrong number in it and we argue about it and he finally agrees that my phone number is my phone number i can't make t

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we receive the miracle of sleeping little boys and wife is on to her work laptop to figure out her presentation for tomorrow on hardly any sleep at all as i type away at nonsense poetry that will never make us any money but probably helps me raise our boys to be less of an asshole than i am with two ice cubes swimming in a finger of gin next to me and at least a thousand writers suffering out there in the bloody moon full night By: via poetry falcon

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corny pretentious oblique prolix it's all ok with me i'm willing to look the fool that i am By: via poetry falcon

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i am 42 nice to meet u By: via poetry falcon

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i like his best By: via poetry falcon

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i let 6 go wild with it By: via poetry falcon

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inspired by my friend in TZ i find this tweakybeat app and make 6 shake his booty while toddler sleeps By: via poetry falcon

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full moon By: via poetry falcon

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this is all scratching the surface all these words all the time so much content maybe it's too much or maybe we should push for more let it all get into words but there are times where minimalism is the key pointing toward a the whole of the universe in each instance as the filters weaken and the plume of coemergence is based on a life fully lived By: via poetry falcon

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we arrive to no one and then are swarmed by four boys of various she's wanting the guns needing the guns to shoot bullets and battle but the real battle is how to share 3 guns among six boys and not blast the innocent bystanders and locating bullets after they're launched is an endless stress bomb for 6 who is worried about losing then in spite of having a box full at home By: via poetry falcon

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i take a stay at home dad shower of putting on a clean tshirt give each of us a cookie and we head to the park 6 with his new six-shooter from the thrift store is apropos By: via poetry falcon

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wife is fighting the good fight and heading in to do the work and i would do the same if i could but i'll stick with these two and surrender to their innocent jubilant wisdom without an anchor By: via poetry falcon

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feeling like my face might fall off my skull 6 says i seem cranky so i explain the situation which is familiar with he's heard the stories then he tells me a joke WHAT DO YOU CALL A CAMEL WITH THREE HUMPS i repeat the riddle and say i don't know PREGNANT he exclaims and i feel my face smile By: via poetry falcon

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either way they're beautiful boys going through the stuff we do By: via poetry falcon

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the colic years with 6 we're the worst new parents and a baby that wouldn't stop crying and was impossible to get to sleep or keep asleep with flooded basements broken washing machines and cars breaking down daycare drama all the time and job strife for wife we've had so many nights and days like this and at least this time he's not sick just having tantrums in the full moon as his system leaps to the next level and we wonder when we'll be done with this stuff and move on to our own next level we've heard it happens and we've heard it gets easier from some and that it's just different from others but still difficult By: via poetry falcon

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the little sleep that comes is interrupted by hallucinations actually thinking i hear the crying toddler and then falling asleep yes it feels awful to wake up in this way the dawn arrives and i can't complain i'm happy to be done with a night like that and there they are again still needing every ounce of attention i've got toddler 6 wife cat By: via poetry falcon

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ink is ordered and no word from wife hoping she and he fell asleep and on i go to do the same By: via poetry falcon

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i get a message that he's still worked up won't let himself fall asleep and then i see the other message from before to order ink for the printer so maybe i'll do that in the meantime By: via poetry falcon

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all that screaming an hour two i dont know in an odd turn he wanted to sleep by his brother and calmed down with mom next to him and now trying to calm this old body down in spite of expecting another round before dawn By: via poetry falcon

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a little nap and we're up with the moon and inconsolable toddler By: via poetry falcon

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she gets him down and wins the award By: via poetry falcon

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6 asleep i sit on the edge of the bathtub praying the toddler will fall asleep with mommy i am motionless not wanting a single bone crack from my foot to carry into his room next door this is where i froze when he finally quieted down if he falls asleep right now i will have avoided another long session and maybe i can get to bed before midnight which may not seem late to you but kids get up early and are not compliant with others sleep needs but then again wife mentioned needing a back rub for some issues occurring there and i can relate with my own sore back and arms so maybe i'll give the gift of whatever you call it By: via poetry falcon

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SNAKE ZEBRA STYLE 6 and i giggling By: via poetry falcon

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curiosity killed the cat's ego By: via poetry falcon

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full moon eclipse tomorrow expecting another late night with the toddler By: via poetry falcon

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i underestimated the power of ranch 6 just inhaled a plate of carrots by dipping them and toddler too By: via poetry falcon

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the boys go out and play squirt guns until the rain comes and then we play light sabers in the rain for a while coming in to get some lunch for toddler who is past his naptime then the rain turns to a downpour with some hail which curtails 6 and mom's plan to pick up milkweed plants with caterpillars on them from the local ditch but they head over to our favorite little chinese buffet instead to have a date together 6 is alwasy wanting more mom time as is toddler so then toddler and i work on his nap and it's another motherfucker just like last night and the nap yesterday and the night before and the nap before that and the one he skipped before that so the frustration is building and building and i keep witnessing it feeling and allowing to poof away but toddler knows how to push buttons and i have try about ten different things before i can even get him to chill out enough maybe possibly lay his head on my chest which after a long drawn out frustrating bullshit thing he final