it's gonna rain

it takes a long long time

to fill these cots

two or three minutes or so

anyone else would say that's not

but we've been here eight months by now

it's gonna rain (x's 4)

well we keep 'em coming

and going too

we bandage them up real good

stitches in their arms and legs

piles of limbs where you stood

it's gonna rain (x's 3)

i never thought that

hell would be so green

or damp and grey in the morning

but everyone says that the way back home

zipped into a bag is boring

it's gonna rain

before, after

before i heard

frank's wild years,

if i broke a vase,

i would throw it away.

after i heard

frank's wild years,

if i broke a vase,

i would fix it.

on: other things

http://www.ericturetolzmaphone.tumblr.com

(one phone photo, old or new, every day)

http://www.etolzmann.tumblr.com

(new b/w photo only site)

volume i. iii.ix.mmx

hard

to see sometimes with the feathers of wasted time fluttering in front of our silly faces and hard to hear with the deafening roar of misplaced efforts to get things we never wanted plugging our ears while we trod along in between the tracks on the ties headed right toward the light which might be four minutes or forty four years off in the rainy distance full of illness and debt, cancer and mortgages, false teachers and hounds from hell, car accidents and foreclosures - and sometimes it's comforting for someone to yell at us or with us while we walk in the direction of all these things that will or will not cut us right to the

core.

my hands

my hands are

cement

and the pen

is on

the shelf.