carbon flows

dopamine and carbon flows

above me -an x of unburned kerosene

and water vapor jets it's way

to salt lake city or kabul or some where

down the street

a lurching pontiac coughs beside the curb

and dies. home in time to light

a pyramid of kingsford EZ light briquets

to char a little industrial ground beef

and me?

my breath, my television,

my keystrokes feeding these pixels,

my camel smoke, my existence, yet

this orb. this amniotic skin

of paleozoic mud and corpses,

the ferns and dinosaurs,

philosophers and gods and scientists

butterflies, sequoias

every atom that ever lived......

they flow, they dance

and ooze

and vaporize

except for jesus, he went up somewhere

didn't he? up beyond the satellites

and lost wrenches, the frozen toilet water

and deodorant and freon? out beyond the

prayers, out beyond who's on first

and lucy, you got some 'splainin to do?

out beyond the dreams and manifestos

in the sunlit uplands of promises

and love that lasted to the feeble final sigh

the slide where joy and mystery bid goodbye

and leave behind a certain weight of meat

to burn or bury, feed the vultures, mummify

these diapers, this light,

this toothpaste

denim-novel-paint-----------------------shit.

the forest burns

and another mini villa in the canyons smolders

and another scooter in mumbai races through the alleys

and another dolphin rots upon a beach

and another nova flares

and my breath expels the carbon shed

when 4-2 aminoethylbenzene -1-2 diol

gets broken down by

catechol-O-methyl transferase and monoamine oxidase

but perhaps i'm just bananas