i think i finally found something (watercolor and colored pencil on wood)

THE FOOLS

falling into a deep love

for no real good reason

outside of your car in the rain

familiar faces in the crowd

wherever you might be...

they are

inside a cloud in a building

under the black earth in a train

on the ocean drinking and smiling

opening up a convenience store

putting on socks in the morning

like a ghost

living alone 

in a garden

with the lord

asleep or working 

on a trailer for a movie

hoping for a miracle

reading books

someone else wrote

paraphrasing they're

favorite passages

writing poems

like this

I Have Seen Through Your Lies (acrylic, paper collage on wood panel)

the dead monkeys

(none of the unseen)

they were everywhere

one by the front door

another in the refrigerator

another wearing a crown 

stuffed into one of the bookcases

the car was full of them

and had been for at least a week

you couldn't open the door

i had the car removed 

from the grounds

the police showed up asking a bunch of questions:

"do you know anything about the dead monkeys ?"

"where is the toilet ?"

"do you know that there is a dead monkey 

in your toilet ?"

i told them i suspected

it was probably my old GF

her or her new BF probably

had something to do with it

but i wasn't sure and had no proof

it was truly terrible and now

i can't stop eating and eating and eating

last night i ate a whole cake

that i made from scratch

while watching 'wrath of khan'

on netflix