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At the very bottom (of everything)
there's still a little Chai left over
In the Pan, On the stove
there's Seitan... simmering
Praise him, praise him.
An adverb clause
is a part of a sentence
that could be removed
but modifies the verb
tells how, when, why.
Karma police,
arrest this man!
Vaporizers:
Cut plastic.
Break bulb
remove filaments.
Read. Write.
Study. Compose.
Run through the forest
paved black. For thru traffic.
Littered like a highway
in its infancy.
Boyfriend hangs up
tells you not tonight
He's tired.
He works all day.
Maybe tomorrow.
Maybe the next day.
Maybe Spring Break.
Yes, Spring Break
Definitely Spring Break.
Surprisingly, Seitan
does not smell of sulfur.
But of broth.
But of wheat.
But of home.
Filaments broken
sounds like the dentist.
Sounds like surgery
Sound like screwing
a post into a jaw bone.
Silence, today
is never silence.
But small sounds.
Sometimes we don't
hear them, because we always
focus on the big sounds.
Bang! Crash! Boom!
We don't hear whisper
we don't hear footstep
we don't hear wings
beat
We don't hear
the gentle brush of a hug.
But we always hear a slap.
Elevator door delivers more
lost souls on just another trip
to wherever.
Upstairs is quiet (for upstairs)
the paces are slow, then quick
walking. Where? to bedrooms?
Why? to fuck, to sleep, to study.
Adverb clauses.
When I was in school
an adverb ended in -ly.
Now they teach that adverbs
are phrases starting in "to"
or "every" or "for"
adverbs are words like
"outside" or "somewhere".
Adverbs do not only
end in -ly.
I feel cheated,
where was this
in my education?
Why did I get
the shorthand lecture?
What else did I miss?
Am I missing now?
Is he asleep?
Or was he lying to me?
He should be lying
beside me.
But he hasn't yet.
Should soon.
Maybe never.
Never and soon
are adverbs.
Am I correct?
Is it love?
Is love an adverb too?
Does it modify a verb.
No. I love you.
Love is the verb
I is the subject
You is the predicate
receiver of the action.
Words are translated
in many ways.
From thoughts to
sounds by our mouths.
From sound to memories.
From thoughts
to keystrokes.
From keystrokes
to eyes
to minds thinking
of how
the writer
would sound
reading it.
It's funny how they
are all the same:
The keystrokes,
the thoughts,
the words,
the speech.
All the same linguistics.
All the same understanding.
All one.
Really
Everything.
Is all one.