Joseph Lease

These Are a Few of My Favorite Things

It’s a pretty light, you know. The way anyone leans
forward. Leans forward just enough. There’s a dream
in the rain. A good dream. When I can’t sleep I am
angels and idiots. They’re running around. They’re in a
Shakespeare play. It’s the longest night of the year. The
light is light gray. They’re dancing around. Declaiming.
One saws the air. One puts his foot on my neck. It’s
a pretty light. The light is light gray. I love what he’s
saying. I want to show him how to do it. I look and I
can’t read the words. The words are tiny. But there are
pictures. Rebus rebus rebus. He’s a picture thinking. I
don’t have time to learn the words. Place the word home
to the left of home, now be home. Mouthful of death,
layers and layers of light, mouthful of ideas about death,
pop culture is awash in fanged bloodsuckers: are you, did
you, will you, can you. The town shines, he breathed,
he loved air, air felt like glass, he wanted and he wanted.
The city shines, he goes to school, he never sleeps. The
early Christians were accused of both cannibalism and
vampirism. And I’ll be all awake. A face, a face in a
window. Days make nights. A plastic bottle floating in
a bush. Nights make days. A plastic bottle floating in a
bush. Firefly. Sky purple clay—my soul a cheap hotel.
When my soul opens there will be a cheap hotel. Say it,
no ideas but in apples, apples and sad pictures. You get
sad just looking at the apple. You’re down in the everyone
believes. Down in the everyone believes something.