Jim McCrary


Reporting ing


I can not stop
Sleeping
Ing
Ing
Ing
See
Ing

What was in the sleep
That is the word
Less time spent
Free from meaning
Ing
Ing
Ing

Not just the one thought
Left over
On the pillow
In the eye
That last vision
Of comic
Ration al ist tic
Free dom from
Ing
Ing
Ing

Dreams like these days
Free as can be seen
Asleep or not
In sleep or not
At sleep as well
Sleeeeeeeeeeep

And then add something really
Strange like little cartoons
Of cats jumping up and then
Down

Now I can or can not tell
When awake is dream
Or just another day like this
Like the rest of this
Just a mutter of day
Another mutter in the week
Add one to another and then
Gone for good

No doubt about that
It as it were
Is walking up to me
And I
Got
Got
Got
No place to lay my head,



Unfinished


Covered by noun objects in st

She was he was the best at everything

And never forgot to endure them fr


This is the true describe

In scribed and fully recalled me

Trying not so much to find the last

As looking to lose what lies before t


Not asking is the same thing isn't it

Does not say just what matters tot

Time like this

Only less light during

Most shady pi


Undo thoughts and you

Will find unknown

Happy time wor


Just keep trying

Hard or otherwise


Competitive paddi




Jim McCrary lives in Lawrence, Ks. Latest chapbook Red Hot Son Ettes from Really Old Gringo Press and A Yearbook from Shirt Pocket Press. Working on series tentatively called His Last Poems. Beginning to believe that recent brain MRI has enhanced his poetics.
 
 
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