THE HIDDEN TRACK

The following passages are dedicated to Leopold, to the vernacular, to certain evil women (you know who you are), to certain wonderful people(they know who they are), to soft afternoons and quiet Sunday evenings, to Fall and seeing your breath for the first time since Spring, and to Isabelle Ya Feng ... a soul slipped by like two ships passing in the still, moonlit sea.
-- Abraham Ahmed, the Surfing Beatnik



The 12 verbs of giving in...


To run away in stride and step,
To flee from those known better yet.
To blank the mind 'till all dost cease,
To stray from issuance of love for me.


To lose the hill to opposite might,
To sit and act and talk in trite.
To glance at door so open wide,
To stand and dash and scurry and hide.


To land with wings though open not,
To view the damage that I hath brought.
To stand and dust myself of walls,
To give and slack and melt and fall.

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