Headaches in the drawers of time
Quick babies running through airports
have curly-blue souls
Without pen or consciousness
I wait for the birds of love
Three shoes two touchdowns a memory
Sounds in my head
like carpenters pounding nails
into videos
I'm a whirlwind of experience
Resumé with orange sauce on it
My narrative begins with a loss of identity
I don't know the body
The doctor looks through a magnifying glass
at the wart above my eyebrow
and writes "seborrheic keratosis"
on a pad of paper with his address
Newspapers report the loss of ozone
I'm melting like wrong attitude wax feathers
It's no use to talk of a Wilderness of Malls
Fingertip skills of the next century
How it will be possible to click on computers
and delete genes not to our liking
off DNA molecules
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Richard Martin is the author of DREAM OF LONG HEADDRESSES: POEMS
FROM A THOUSAND HOSPITALS, WHITE MAN APPEARS ON SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BEACH and
NEGATION OF BEAUTIFUL WORDS. His recent poems have appeared in ACM;
Exquisite Corpse; Fell Swoop; and the anthologies: ALOUD: VOICES FROM
THE NUYORICAN CAFE and AMERICAN POETS SAY GOODBYE TO THE 20th CENTURY. For
fourteen years (1982-1996), he coordinated the ALPS program in Binghamton,
N.Y. and hosted the Big Horror Poetry Series. He is a certified
elementary/middle school principal. Awards for his poetry include a National
Endowment for the Arts fellowship. He currently resides in Boston,
Massachusetts.