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Chasing Ghosts In Cars


“Chasing Ghosts in Cars” 

Like automata
we walk inside 
winding up the stairs

it’s all mechanical
the romance 
programmed

by steep degrees 
in the 
well-routined

we can walk 
through walls
anywhere

to look out 
our windows 
towards the better view

each cell in the body
and mind renewed
we expurgate

the misplaced 
misconceptions 
of others, of ourselves

it’s fair-weather sailing 
out there, 
the transparent come and go

best to turn 
a blind eye
a swift kiss on the cheek

make it brief
then close all
your doors 

to their artful dodger hauntings
friendships and felicitations
their joyful gleaming commiserations

whole oceans 
full of souls
walking and swimming 

treading water 

all the floating 
poesies planted
mindfully fragrant 

fresh bits thrown
parlayed introspection
deliciously blooded with the sharks 

such hungry poets
with a well-adjusted
deep knowing

and a quiet 
unthorough 
understanding 

of another 
unknown equation
in the real world 

never making 
premature 
judgements

outside is a risk
we all take 
we write what we know

we know what we write
ghost written 
in the Daily Phantom

in the gloaming fantasy
there still exist 
real ghouls calling us in

hungry for kindness
burying pity for 
the honesty it lacks

inside we are listing
the volume we turn up 
to hear messages better

we are 
listening 
to cars 

lyrics 
we wish you
to know

to be understood
when you are 
chasing ghosts 

some say
they’ve gone too far
they’re too far gone away

forget-me-knots
hanging loose 
chasing ghosts in cars

Machiavellians
gone astray 

the naked minds 
of  
undressed nuns

and 
sanctimonious preachers 
oiling their guns

(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)





“Here in my car
I feel safest of all
I can lock all my doors
It's the only way to live in cars 

Here in my car
I can only receive
I can listen to you
It keeps me stable for days in cars”





listing/nautical.
“Listing” is a nautical term to describe when a vessel takes on water and tilts to one side. A ship can list either to port (left) or starboard (right). By contrast, a ship is said to be “trimming” when she tips forward or backward.

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