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SUVs, Snow, Breakfast Buffet

by Noah Barbosa

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1.
Saw a rabbit 01:46
pulled into the drive that’s up to the moon this week’s like the last didn’t read the room you look like you’ve seen a ghost as the rain refracts and dust is dancing on your coat it’s a chain reaction you look like you’ve seen a ghost.
2.
stock still wound too tightly eyes of a pisces head on for the nightlies tiptoed drunk to the window sized and beside me hard cut reds on the walkway drives to the wrong day why the wrong face put another dime in the mindstain rust from along rain dragonfly on a branch we were dancing with reaches and chance a peach balanced on the back of your hand two fedex trucks where it moons two soggy afternoons i’m changing clocks the wrong way two fedex trucks where it moons one mumbled platitude tripped over my feet i feel okay and the room went silent a picture of me pitched against a kitchen island in the middle of the night new head like laura palmer’s scream leaning on the mirror in the last shot staring past the houses performing tricks of the light where my mouth is scary movies and stale cookies it wasn’t the thought that shook me i’ve been out walking
3.
i had a dream that you lived in my old apartment we stayed up late in the night across the creek from your cheek and still tried to stop it another thought that didn’t come out right and with my hand on the way wrong shade of winter i got no reason to lie and with the wool on my eyes i walk the center line in your grandpa’s lexus at the drive-in movie a piece of july breaks off and runs through me with a face like a constellation i drive like a demon halation to station freeze framed at the drive-in movie a piece of july chipped off to flow bluely and with a face like a constellation we’re walking the fog from halation to station i had a dream i was crossing the empty freeway it’s just a trick of the light the laundromat flickering on constant replay and three right turns beneath the yellow kite i slept through winter like an animal you know this still stepping into my sight you got off easy with a world you never noticed the sea swells the spending of october at home dialectics of a maple tree's bones the sea swells the spending of october at home
4.
we stayed up late you lit the flame i felt the same one way ghost states come stumbling out of one’s grave i took a walk today i must have pressed replay i’m all years these days on lit-up streets with no name i took a walk today the plow that broke the plains i waded through the target starbucks you wanna know the sum test our luck i am not the one with their guard up the sun is not a person smart up
5.
Moon leave 03:07
6.
give me the season give me a smile out on the blacktop waiting a while fly out the window i’m not your guy no revolution no dryer eye give me your reason throw me a turn everyone’s gone to the fires they burned bitter the coffee tighter the urn no revolution what did we learn when i get scared, i just call you pulling the levers cry to the bank play out the gambit who’s there to thank same foggy cycle same new years day no revolution band simply plays stepped in my shadow started the car one lucid moment twisted my arm give me a second give me a smile no revolution no one for miles when i get scared, i just call you
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8.
Snows 02:53
i sat chameleonesque thought it was the sea wind, sweating out the demon as he lights the last cigarette treat it like a night off, craters in the sidewalk i waved in saccharine haze technicolor tango, we’ll just have to say so stomach fluttering way the next day i know i’m still in tent prose, you know what i meant though if everybody lived the same life would they have the same dreams at night? something about the junipers stayed tangled in their ribcage kisses from the lemon rind, this is when they stop the tape and never press rewind. the sea is a perpetual motion machine is all they can think stumbling back to an unlocked car or laying supine for the archaeologists to find. steps out on the back deck away from a party that looks nothing like a hieronymous bosch, their wallet’s somewhere in the underbrush i’m sure, i’m sure... i reject the question -- or at least not tonight -- stinging in their face from the cold, it always snows at the exact wrong time
9.
have a little faith door slam and the room goes silent no secrets and no surprises same day with a different haircut realize that you can’t rewind it freeze frame at the drive in movie new end let the blend run through me light head and ill-fitting shoes on i just know that something’s gotta go wrong man bites dog. i’ll take the pressure off. you’ve got no other eyes. snapped off and painted white, automatic stop i waded through the target starbucks.

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released October 19, 2020

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