Hello coffee cup
What’s up?
I’m glad you’re still here
Where else would I be?
Being away from home gets old fast
Why’s that?
There are people I miss
Didn’t you talk to them this morning?
Yeah but it’s not the same
Why?
Hmmm not sure
Not sure about what?
What’s missing when I’m unsatisfied
What don’t you have?
… I’m feeling better
Did you find it?
Nope 🙂
-T. Weeks
(A response to a lot of business travel)
Smokey wink and stolen glance
From beyond the microphone
Leather-bound hips surf the rising beat
A blue falcon riding red riffs
Electric talons plucking willing prey
Out of the back of the crowd
Play it again
-T. Weeks
(A response to a killer show)
In the movie
Aliens swim around in your gut
Rip apart your insides
Until they bust out
I’ve got an alien
But I think mine got lost
Swims in my throat
Scaly ribs brush my esophagus
Pushes on the back of my eyes
Sometimes it hides and I forget
When it busts out
I think it’ll come out my mouth
Slime-toothed squid missile
A metaphor too big for my head
Questions bump around too
Maybe the alien knocked them loose
Maybe they feed it
Questions like where am I needed
Where am I wanted
Maybe that’s the alien
Or here’s the real mind fuck
Maybe I’m the alien
-T. Weeks
(A response to observing everything I feel)
Deep in the bag
Overlooked uneaten
Cold stale acrobats
Tumbling into the bin
Unconsidered
Emigrants
Heap to heap
Left for the bacteria
Can they be forgotten
They were never known
-T. Weeks
(A response to leftover fries)
Sometimes
Overconfidence
Is all Michael
The Gate Agent
Has to give
And he delivers
-T. Weeks
(A response to a flight connection
that I was certain to miss but didn’t)
From the North West
Hip and highwayed and sure
Where ice on the roads
Is the crisis de jour
To the Middle East
Older than old
Reborn and reborn
Evergreen and growing
-T. Weeks
(A response to a delayed flight)
Sitting in the bathtub
Been a long time
Not sure what to do
No rubber duckies
Do I just sit here
Showers are faster
And warmer I think
Humming is echoey
I remember that now
Hesitant drip escapes the faucet
Plunks and echoes too
If I pull the plug
Will I get sucked down the drain
It’s not a silly thought
Happened to a friend of mine
-T. Weeks
(A response to a bath)
A free Créme Brûlée
Is all it was
Free dessert is all
Nothing funny about that
Don’t laugh
The waiter was just nice
Who gets a free
Anything
Let alone a Créme Brûlée
-T. Weeks
(A response to dinner)
One tasted candy
One wandered, fingers spread wide
Both want more and more
-T. Weeks
(A response to learning)
Little guy
Couple seats away
Tells stories
Panhandling for respect
Gets laughs instead
Doomed
Always the easy target
-T. Weeks
(A response to the guy at the bar)
Life Immense 