booksartyoume

'Sedition' timothy r gates, 1/24/2009

goodness
wellness
the act of sedition
taking out those that
dis-agree
with those that
agree
called
patriotism
perhaps
patriot act?
Perhaps ah's
lacking courage to simply
do
good.

'pens, collectibles for some' timothy r gates, 1/25/2009

Pens, collectibles for some
pencils, rarely used
legal pads and spiral notebooks
all the works in process
no mistakes to be found,
printed posthumous, not with
document's file
Oscar, Ahkmatova, Whitman, Rumi
Dostoevsky's notes wouldn't exist
our
Word or Office spell-checkers,
complete words lost, the others ones
still gone
jotted down, scribbles partly erased,
ideas too afraid to complete
able to be found
if you're hard drive savvy
my pens, pencils, brushes
scratches, scars and impressions
indelible
my face, not the worse for wear
my pages
saved in a fire box.
Now if i can just remember where i put it.