the void is consumed by the word that describes it

our last two shows have gone really well,
despite gunshots and other violence,
people are still people and are greatly favored of the many lives.


we gave a kind man the cans from tonight
he didn't want the bottles,
so we fished them out for him.

i can hear someone collecting recycling
through the metal door right now.


when i lived far away from the city
in a quiet wilderness
even the snow falling on the shingled roof
made more noise
than our crickets,
and the cool of the alley
the stones so silent
after the sound stops shaking them...

this place is a tomb and a castle
at night
in the deep of the night
when everyone has gone home...

things move slower,
sink into the cold darkness
the soothe


why are we always at the brink of destruction
fighting something we can't see


this place is made with every passing of hours
moving - the pinpoints of light that rarely creak through the brick
or broken window

these small signs mark days and weeks
and turn weak seasons into each other
the semi-bland changing between steam and chill
that we want all the time
living in los angeles
the mild
the effortless air
the certain freedom to not think of weather

and it is a topic of conversation,
but really
it has been so hot...

i was reading about
ralph waldo emerson,
and some of his works,
and i think he would not believe in the void
because he knows all things to be connected.
he also refused to recognize the concept of evil
which obviously is questionable,
but perhaps he would see the void
as interdependent and therefore connected to
everything else that is not the void,
and therefore as defying it's own definition
or rendering it /
rendering it not void.
giving it the shape of words
naming the formless with names...

not void
and isn't that a double negative,
or is it as ridiculous to have the word nothing

but that is what it is
not a black hole
no matter
no substance
no energy
no mass
nothing
absence
emptiness
the edge of creation,
not the brink of destruction...
perhaps both...
always both...