Tate Lewis-Carroll

   75feelslike69f

   37mph wind

   78% hu 3:59pm

   tornado watch

tired of beginning

all my emails w/

“sorry 4 d’delay:”

3 days storm after

4 days sun: inter

mitten downpours

broken by showers:

conservacation,

as in, “no, it’s okay

2 toss ur cig butt

on2 d’sidewalk b/c

i’m on a conservacation:”

wind turbine techs,

i heard on NPR,

make 100k salaries:

these & cyber security

jobs r putting uni

versities outta work:

d’business kids better

take a class w/ a poet

2 learn how 2 stretch

a $:

Jordan Davis

Jordan Davis

Jordan Davis

Jordan Davis

u got a pretty voice:

i carry a combat purse:

go 2 sleep w/ a hard-on

& wake up w/ wld: bass

wood is soft enough

2 tear by hand: try

chopping oak boards

in half, karate boy:

r we making rocks

when we’re breaking

rocks? or d’other way

around? break words

open & inside, if u’re

lucky, u’ll find

crystals, & if u’re

trained, u’ll find

fossils:

3 things u need:

1.  skill

2.  opportunity

3.  luck

skillful opportunities,

lucky skills,

opportunistic luck:

golden:

i wanna lake

on Mi riprap w/ u:

i wanna rip Lake

Mi in ½: wrap me

in half, u in d’other:

i want 2 rip my wants

in2 lakes we can summer

on 2gether, baby: d’sky

makes 100s of clouds

frm a single lake:

d’poet, 100s of poems

frm a length of poetry:

all always cycling back

2 d’source:

oh right hand,

my old flame,

we shldn’t be here

2gether like this:

u look well:

frizzy day: where’s iz?

walking d’garden

in a thunder storm:

some ppl come right out

of story books, others

inspire them: which

came 1st, d’archetype

or d’character?

Love or Romance?

crows

r a means

of transporting

consciousness: but

as w/ anything

there r other ways:

gimme a sec,

i’m trying 2

triangulate smthng

here: humming tree

in d’plum birds:

           yeah no wait:

i got 2 know

my coffee this morning

& my coffee

got 2 know me: see

d’hen’s advertisement

4 eggs? how

long ago i saw

frail birch bark

in p/early northern

light & knew

suddenly,

urgently,

i had 2 get it

in2 poetry:

ever since i started

writing poetry

i’ve become

increasingly,

equally, attentive

& oblivious

2 every moment

since, sense:

poetic autopilot

is still more human

than AI:

& d’poet sd,

‘s all good:

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