i know that lizards like jelly, because 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 ponds from the tips of my for her to drink, and drop gobs of silly flavored jelly on the counter for her to lick.
i know it is possible to become intimate with 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 debuted at carnegie hall. i have been homeless, on the streets. i witnessed death, and birth, and graduation. i been told to leave, and invited to stay. i went to a big new eve party in new york city, with many famous people, the mayor, baryshnikov, jessica lange, i was at the opening of the film which one best film year. i was out of high school i was the key to the city of baltimore. what a kick. i'd like of those. i was arrested i am the highest point of my family tree. i call them to fruition, i sing them about the beautiful sky, but they cannot see it. there is a canopy above them, being woven out of determination to grow. out of the legacy of pain. i call them but do not come, they cannot come, no sun hits them. i swum with turtles in the open sea. i found ancient, nails on the shore. and written about the boat, the sailors, and their homes , one piece of survival. i grew up in a hospital, my brother die. i grew up in a hotel room , watching my mother bring left over food.for our dinner. i cried my self to sleep by the cold sea, with no coat or blanket or dime for the phone, and awakened in the warm sun, in his arms, his grunts and the rustling of his leaves, his great purring and measured love by things, and so love a fearful calm, and i always run back to the the lion completed, by love, me back to the hunt my i have turned my back to the sunrise from rooms and called out the name of the setting sun from the desert i've where it was happening i have it happen i have walked down tiny alone, for miles i have planned i have myself into moderation i abandon my own i have attacked by droves of red ants. by crazy by people i been carried all the way, by someone, now and then but he is too tired to stay then and i hate him for my weakness i have been in a helicopter, flying over the alaskan glaciers, and i have been in the concord, faster sound. as much as i have learned camouflage, i have my broken body on the plains at dusk i been in a jet the oxygen masks dropped 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 have skiied, 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 in the same elevator.on different occasio