i know that lizards like jelly, i have fed wild geckos on the roof of my hut in the seychelles islands. she was called the morning lizard, and i would drop clear ponds from the tips of my fingers for her to drink, and drop gobs of silly flavored jelly on the for her to lick.
i know that it is possible to become intimate a stranger, from a distance, across time and continents, because i have knelt before a young master in a very private tea ceremony. i him move, whisk, wipe, fold, touch, offer, drink, enter, exit,
well one wasn't so good. i have debuted at hall. i have homeless, panhandled on the streets. i have death, and birth, and graduation. i have been told to leave, and to stay. i went to a big new years eve party in new york city, with many people, the mayor, baryshnikov, jessica lange, i was at the opening of the film one best film that year. i was kicked out of school i was given the key to the of baltimore. a kick. i'd like more of those. i was arrested i am the highest point of my family tree. i call them to fruition, i sing them themes about the beautiful sky, but cannot see it. there is a canopy above them, being woven out of determination to grow. out of the legacy of pain. i call but they do not come, they cannot come, no sun hits them. i have swum with turtles in the sea. i found ancient, rusty on the shore. and about the boat, the sailors, and their homes , from one piece of survival. i grew up in a hospital, watching my die. i grew up in a hotel room , watching my mother home left over food.for our dinner. i have cried my self to by the cold sea, with no coat or blanket or dime for the phone, and awakened in the warm sun, in his arms, hearing his grunts and the of his leaves, his great purring and measured love by things, and so love a fearful calm, and i have run to the storm the lion completed, by love, send me back to the my i have turned my back to the from hotel rooms and called out the name of the setting sun from the desert i've been where it was i made it happen i have down tiny lanes alone, for miles i have revolutions i carved myself into moderation i abandon my own i have been attacked by of red ants. by horses by crazy i been carried all the way, by someone, now and then but he is always too tired to stay and i hate him for loving my i have been in a helicopter, flying over the alaskan glaciers, and i have in the concord, faster than sound. as as i have learned camouflage, i have left my broken body on the plains at dusk i been in a jet when the oxygen masks i came out to the car and my daughter was gone her car seat. she had me in. all of it is over and over again. i skiied, water skiied, raced in the water, i have played baseball and cards. i learned chess at 8, i learned my funny valentine. i met bob dylan. He me a poet. i rode with maximilian shell, and leonard cohen in the same elevator.on occasio