with flowers; for emma

Everyone should be aware of the risks
Everyone should know caveat emptor
I want to try and find a way
to recreate the scam
where they shave
a percentage of a cent
off each transaction
keep it for themselves
the one they used in superman.  
But its been around for years. 
salami slicing
just doesn't sound as good 
as the superman shill 
and it has been this way since the seventies
when radar on mash 
was sending his jeep home a part at a time,  
since before that
when all the real men got lost 
and the superman scheme became all the rage 
me in front of a plastic radio
listening to Johnny Cash 
singing "One Piece At a Time" 
I want a piece of every moment 
since I was a child
to keep for myself
I know that all just sounds like hubris to you
I wonder what the story of Icarus sounds like to you
because I will be the first to admit 
I have seen wax wings soften


I am no superman 


I do it for emma in the back of my mind. 
At the end of the movie you will know 


Mimzy returned to her own time, as if time had stopped. It was what the scientist had hoped for — to find a soul in the past not contaminated by the pollutants that filled our bodies and minds. Our precious quality of humanity had been turned off, but in Emma's tears was the instruction for an awakening; and it spread like wildflowers. People shed their protective suits. And over time humanity blossomed again. Our world was saved by a child, very much like you. Emma was our mother, the mother of us all


And I heard that there are people
with floral consciousnesses
that bloom like fields  
they believe in sacred geometry 
and lace their narrow words together
like a mandala.
breathe like ciphers
inside of a world
like a blue balloon
that loses it's breath too easy
I got lost that night
feels like i am drunk
saying it was in 
a set of eyes like the Norway spiral
but there is that one point in the video
call it a cover up
call it a missile trace
but I wouldn't say it missed any stage of ignition
target is such a big word
call it  a real life mimzy if you want.
call it The Legend of the Blue Lotus
and fall as far down the rabbit hole as you like 
because there are people that believe all sorts of things 
and just because rabbits believe in carrots 
more than they believe in fences 
doesn't mean that every one is just 
automatically bunny-foo-foo 
some white rabbits are from the future, 
have wax wings and hubris,
no cape, no fear
just a slight need 
instructions for an awakening
I hear the rabbits
with the most developed palates 
prefer to eat flowers anyway