ojo ojo ojo

the flicker of your eyes
renders dollar store shelves of
rainbow colored plastic shit smashed
with riotous sledgehammers

the flicker of your eyes rushes crowds
of well meaning itinerant children
into tomorrow's parks tugging at
shirts haggled on tables in times
square

the flicker of your eyes destroys unopens
destroys unused gated fields suffocated with the idle
debris of unthinking candy bar wrappers and
erects quiet faced guardians to stand
watch over lost spaces and welcome
those who need them and everyone
needs them

the flicker of your eyes drinks every
bottle in a bar dry and fills every vein
dead with clumping heroin slurry and
every bronchial tube with sweetly
violent smoke violet through diner
neon and burns every hangover

the flicker of your eyes is a cruel
irresolute madness backbroken on
the quick injurious words of a lover
seething across a street learning a
penetrating truth

the flicker of your eyes is a child
touching everything in the store
and getting the shit smacked out of them forced
to the parking lot in hideous
unjust tears and finding a space too
massive to even understand filled
with more people who don't
understand or care than it seems
there are grains of sand on a beach's
anthills

the flicker of your eyes is a fucking bitch with
finger deadset in chest coloring you with each
bit of pressure knowing you and rendering you
soluble in dust with each knowing pierce

the flicker of your eyes knows me through you knows
this through this finds me thinks me whole runs
me lost past post offices closed from disuse in the
reflection of caribbean goods windows and ghetto
doctors offices chased by the slow gait of a woman's
decisions like music flickering

the flicker of your eyes fucks with parallel universes and
unchanges changed decisions and changes and decides and
drops judgment like tropical hail rattles the walls of jails with
hope and mystical longings makes the free feel chained up and
ruined with jagged movements in your eyes

the flicker of your eyes tries makes efforts for me it walks with me
through the cities that won't stalk my failures for me following
me swallowing edges of manhattan in pieces guardrail by stoop stairs by
moonlit bad choices stacking bits of a hundred country's voices til
babylon is a bar i decide on on a moist summer eve i find the roads
where your dilated pupils migrate the movements of intoxicated strangers that
touch my arm reminding me to hoist expectations while murmuring the
lyrics to car alarms your eyes

flicker making me healthy urging each sidestep to danger no closer to better
off without the observation of sirens either bad intentioning females or police
textures watercoloring the contents of my pockets violently transfixing a
touch to my shoulder insecure your eyes flicker and ask directions demure and
unknown standing before the map lacking the craft to find stations which
fill me even alone empty and unknown standing in wait like my passion will
speak for itself as it disregards the words that insist to wait for

the flicker of your eyes bold and unyielding and standing on chairs too loud talking
loud yet fucking with sarcastic prettyboys and debonair rooftop partyclub
gogetters smacking fourteen dollar drinks out of their hands like WHAT and
screaming shitty obscure options to deejays on tuxedo dancefloors with utter
sincerity prepping moves in mirrors to shake strangers to

the flicker of your eyes intelligent unbelieving melted salt caramel confrontational
anarchic confounding predictive debunking thrift store riches and favorite
cookbooks with flair

the flicker of your eyes is a one dollar fifty special on hot dogs at gray's
papaya panhandled on a wednesday afternoon to the tune of vegan supermarket
muzak and samples of mexican food dropping quarters in the empty guitar case
of a travelling headfucked hitchhiker playing blackjack with bad acid trips for
good ones and doubling down

your eyes flicker and mountains go unclimbed and elementary school poetry withers
unrhymed and awkward in the hearts of bad students with more ink in the margins
than homework assigned accomplishing empty gibberish for the bathroom stalls of
their furious fearless minds learning curse words to mouth in the mirror to present
snickering to bullies before untold acts of cruelty

your eyes flicker and everything stays serene to contrast the stutter of a pair of ill-
fitting denim pants at the shindig you thought you'd stand out at spitting game to the
pinkhaired character smiling at the goofy unkempt bold motherfucker who keeps
ducking out to smoke his pack of unfiltered social anxiety in the windswept solace
of lamplight leaning on the brickwork in torpor

your eyes flicker and the city speaks cruelty even in the lack of your flickering
eyes looking for judgment and redemption in a smile to accommodate these
wasted yet urgent grasps for reason and the cosign of a strapless bra shuddering
close to my blathering mouth territorial for purpose in your effortless mouth
territorial

i flicker when you watch me
jumping in and out of your vision
surreal and televised
conquered and yielded
your most minute graze thrilling
your most particular shift documented

ruined in your careless glance
a jazz solo in a muted cough
the flicker of your eyes annotated
footnoted and obscured to smaller text

muted trumpet when you speak
never speaking when you speak
you are here with me

the city only ever a memory
witnessed
replete with imagery cataloged in disfiguring prose
the flicker of your eyes recording me in silence
epoch in a grateful glance

we could be nothing and you'd forget each of these words
but when you watched the sidewalks shifted alignment
i stepped north to go east
then you ordered hispanic sodas in the confusion and

all i tasted was sugar