by Evan Dara
Looking bursting crash exploding
Snap through seams of sealed defenses
Snake down walls & cloud-crawl ceilings
Burst through cores & pivot doors &
Course through ducts & air-space hollows
Go & go &
Go & go &
Going up &
Going to &
I think you should Go & see a
In a chair & in a corner
In a chair that’s in a corner
In a chair I’m in a corner
Sitting in a quiet corner
Flipping through a Skimming through a
Flipping through a Skimming through a
Skinny rag on thinny paper
Skinny rag on thinny paper
Flipping through the skinny rag while
In the calm liBrary corner
What you got there What you reading
What you got there What you reading
I know I know what you’re reading
You think I don’t notice things &
Black beard scraggle Blue eye nose ring
Black beard scraggle Blue eye nose thing
Skinny guy is lanky standing
Standing & deManding & he
Yo man that your Rental car &
In the lot the Rental car &
Something something in the back seat
Something something in the back seat
Something covered in the back seat
You think I don’t notice things &
People milling people scribbling
People scanning eye to spine &
People milling people walking
To the front desk checkout counter
No one notice No one notice
No one seems to Wants to notice
What’s he want so
What’s he doing
What does this guy
Think he’s doing
Let me know uh when you’re finished
Let me know uh when you’re finished
Guy he wants to read the paper
Skinny rag on thinny paper
Guy he wants the skinny paper
Ticket please & ticket please &
Ticket please & thank you sir &
No perturbing no disturbing
No perturbing no disturbing
On the pavement on the pavement
On the pavement on the pavement
Perturbing disturbing Perturbing disturbing
Perturbing disturbing Perturbing disturbing
On the pavement on the pavement
Sprawled out spilled out on the pavement
Huddle men huddle men
Huddle men huddle men
No motion no motion
No motion no motion
By the cars by the cars
By the cars near the cars
All the cars Cars all stopped
All the cars Cars all stopped
Ev’rywhere ev’rywhere
No motion ev’rywhere
Traf, fic, jam, Traf, fic, jam
Traf, fic, jam, Traf, fic, jam
Looking & staring & leaning & owling &
Looking & staring & leaning & owling &
Stepping out going out
Going out stepping out
Traf, fic, jam, Traf, fic, jam
Overpass overpass Overpass overpass
More people looking from Up on the overpass
Down looking down looking
To the ground on the ground
Crumbled & crumpled & crushed & disheveled &
Crumbled & crumpled & crushed & disheveled &
No, moshe, un, No, moshe, un
No, moshe, un, No, moshe, un
Crumbled & crumpled & crushed & disheveled &
Crumbled & crumpled & crushed & disheveled &
Shoulders & splay limbs &
Hipbones & fingers &
Kneecaps & insteps all
Crushed & disheveled &
Jumped he he Must have he
Jumped he he Must have he
Overpass overpass Overpass overpass
Jumped he he Must have he
Must have the overpass
No, moshe, un, No, moshe, un
No, moshe, un, No, moshe, un
Over pass over pass
Over pass over pass
Police & police & Police & police &
Police & police & Police & police &
Step away step away
Step away step away
Step away step away
Step away move away
Police & police & Police & police &
Step away step away
Move away step away
Please now just back off &
Step away move away
Guiding & leading & clearing & moving &
Guiding & moving & pushing & touching &
Tape around tape around Tape around tape around
Tape around tape around
Tape around tape around
Watching & waiting & watching avoiding &
Watching & waiting & watching for nothing &
Press in & press in &
Press in between the cars Press in for watching &
Watching then turning then
Watches & cell phones & wristbands & dial tones &
Watches & cell phones & wristbands & dial tones &
Grousing & grousing &
Grousing & grousing &
Watches & cell phones & watches & dial tones &
Spielings & dealings &
Grousing & grousing &
Rubberneck rubberneck rubberneck rubberneck
Can we so Can we but
Can we so Can we but
Might we so Could we so
Could we a little late
No, moshe, un, No, moshe, un
Overpass overpass overpass overpass
Up on the overpass ambulance overpass
Ambulance ambulance
Ambulance ambulance
Lowering lowering
Ambulance lowering
Winching & bringing & letting descending &
Winching & bringing & letting descending &
Lowering lowering
Lowering lower the
Stretcher is bringing the
Stretcher is lower the
Stretcher is bringing the
Stretcher is lowering
Gentle & gentle &
Gentle & gentle now
Gentle & gentle &
Careful & gentle &
Pick him & lift him &
Put him & strap him &
Pick him & lift him &
Put him & strap him &
Gentle & gentle &
Careful & careful &
Take him & lift him &
Pick him & touch him HUNH!
Gentle! & lift him &
Gentle! & take him &
Lifting & taking &
Rising & going &
On, the, ground
On, the, ground
On, the, ground
On, the, ground
Staying remaining &
Staying & staining &
On, the, ground
On, the, ground
Staying & staining &
Staying remaining &
Seeping & staying blood
Staining blood staying &
Ambulance ambulance
Ambulance ambulance
Inhale & exhale & inhale & exhale &
Tape down & tape down &
Tape down & tape down &
Inhale & exhale & Inhale & exhale &
Turning & going & moving returning cars
Starting cars revving cars gunning & gearing some
Staying & smiling & Wagging & looking some
Staying & smiling & Grinning & saying that’s
One way to make your mark
One way to make your mark
One way to make your mark
One way to make your mark
Sm
iling & turning & smiling & smiling &
Turning & smiling & smiling & turning &
One way to make your mark
One way to make your mark
One way & one way that’s
One way & one way that’s
One way & one way & Tramway & one way &
One way to tramway to
Damrak to tramway that’s
Ghostly & ghostly & ghostly & tramway &
Ghostly & ghostly & ghostly & ghastly &
Walking & ghostly &
Walkway & tramway &
Ghostly & dragging &
Dragging & dragging a
Dirtway a sweater a
Dirtway a sweater a
Dragging a sweater &
Dirty & dirty &
Dragging a dragging a
Dirty & dirty &
Dragging a dragging a Dirtway just dirtway just
Ruffing fanning flowing spurring
Ruffing fanning flowing spurring
Ruffing fanning flowing spurring
Ruffing fanning flowing spurring
Ties & gravel ties & gravel
Ties & gravel ties in gravel
Ruffing fanning flowing spurring
Ruffing fanning flowing spurring
Ties that bind & ties in line &
Ties unwind & ties remind &
Repetition repetition repetition repetition
Repetition repetition repetition repetition
Rolling trolling flowing going
Rolling trolling flowing going
Restitution restitution
Restitution restitution
Automation consolation automation consolation
Rolling trolling flowing going
Repetition consolation repetition consolation
Automatic consolation automatic modulation
Automatic automatic automatic automatic
Automatic automatic automatic automatic
Turning & returning & returning & returning & re
Ferring & referring & referring & referring & re
Curring nightmares are my interest
stirring nightmares are my interest
Stirring nightmares is my interest
Stirring nightmares in my interest
Grizzly beard ramshackle hair &
Grizzly beard ramshackle & a
Nose ring & a nose ring & a
Nose ring & a nose thing & a
Sitting in a sitting in a
Sitting with me in a corner
Sitting in a sitting in a
Sitting a liBrary corner
What you reading what you reading
What you reading what you reading
I know I know what you’re reading
Skinny rag & skinny paper
Skinny rag on thinny paper
Look at it man Look at it man
I mean take a Look at that thing
Look at it man Look at it man
I mean take a Look at that pa
Thetic & pathetic just Pathetic just pathetic just &
Only going cause it’s floating
On a sea of Dutch money pa
Thetic & pathetic it’s pa
Thetic just pathetic & it’s
On a sea of Dutch money &
That’s a wicked that you got there
Ouch! a wicked that you got there
Got to got to Keep it clean &
Got to got to Keep it clean &
How you get that
That you got there
How you get that
That you got there
Got to keep it Keep it clean &
Got to keep all
All things clean like
Editing a magazine like
Editing a magazine so
Make it clean &
Make it mean &
Make it clean &
Make things mean like
Editing a magazine like
Editing a magazine &
I think you know what I mean &
Make it clean & make it mean &
You think I don’t notice things &
There you go & there you go &
There you go & there we go &
I think you should go & see a
I think you should go & see a
Go & see & You will see &
Go & see & You will see &
Tell him tell him Tangent sent you
Tell him that Jon Tangent sent you
I see you see what I mean &
I see you see what I mean &
There you go & there we go &
There we go & there you go &
You think I don’t
You think I don’t
You think I don’t
You think I don’t
There we go &
Go & see &
There we go &
Go & see &
Move away step away Move away step away
Move away step away Move away go away
I think I think
That you see &
I think I think
That you see &
Moving & crossing & going & stepping &
Going & moving & crossing & clearing &
Got to keep all
All things clean &
Got to keep all
All things clean &
Walking & moving & going & stepping &
Walking & moving & going & stepping &
Kalverstraat Kalverstraat Kalverstraat Kalverstraat
Back from the Kalverstraat
Back from the Kalverstraat
Walking & toting a Drinking glass drinking glass
Walking & toting a Drinking glass drinking glass
Back from the Kalverstraat
Plastic bag drinking glass
Back from the Kalverstraat
Plastic bag drinking glass
Drinking glass for the room
Needed a drinking glass
Drinking glass for the room
Needed a drinking glass
Plastic bag rattle bag
Plastic bag rattle bag
Drinking glass for the room
Drinking glass in the room
Rattle bag rattle bag
Rattle bag rattle bag
Bringing & bringing a
Clean glass a drinking glass
For the room Hotel room
For the gloom Hotel room
Rattle bag rattle glass
Rattle bag rattle glass
Walking & moving & dodging & stepping &
Walking & moving & dodging & stepping &
Sunlight & shadow &
Sunlight & shadow &
Dodging & looking &
Passing & stepping &
Shadowway sunlight day
Shadowway sunlight day
Down the way Damrak way
Down the way Damrak way
Walking & weaving & shopping & stepping &
Walking & weaving & shopping & stepping &
People just weaving just
Walking just stepping just
People just weaving just
Walking just stepping all
Going to coming to
Going to coming to
Down the way Damrak way
One way down Damrak way
Shadowway sunlight day
Shadowway sunlight day
Tram pass the tramway the
Tram passes sunlight day
Tram pass the tramway the
Tram passes sunlight day
Down the way Damrak way
Tram goes the Damrak way
Slide away pass away
See from the shadowway
Tram passes slide away
See from the shadowway
Figure a figure a
Profile a figure a
Figure a figure a
Silhouette figure a
Slide away pass away
See from the shadowway
Tram passes slide away
> See from the shadow a
Figure a figure in
Profile a figure a
Figure a figure step
Sunlight step figure &
Fall away fall away Fall away fall away
Fall away fall away Fall away fall away
Fall to the shadowway
Fall in the shadowway
Fall away press away
Fall to the shadowway
Hide in the entranceway
Press into the café
Hide in the entranceway
Of the unknown café
It, can, not, it, can, not
It, can, not, it, can, not
Hide in the entranceway
The four-two-oh café
Hide in the entranceway
The four-two-oh café
It, can, not, it, can, not
t, can, not, it, can, not
Hide in the hide in the
Entranceway shaddoway
Hide in the hide in the
Entranceway shaddoway
It, can, not
It, can, not
It, can, not
It, can, not
Can, not, can, not, can, not
Can, not, can, not, can, not
Run to the corner & Run to the corner &
Run to the corner & Run to the corner &
Can, not, can, not, can, not
Can, not, can, not, can, not
Run to the corner &
Duck in the archway &
Run to the corner to
See from the archway &
Stone building stone archway
Gray building stone archway
Looking & peering &
Searching & staring &
Looking & peering &
Searching & staring &
Look down the Damrak &
Look down the Damrak &
Look down the Damrak &
Look down the Damrak way
Walking & shopping & stepping & cycling &
Walking & shopping & stepping & cycling &
I, N, G
I, N, G
Look down the Damrak a
Figure a figure a
Look down the Damrak a
Figure her figure her
It, can, not
It, can, not
It, can, not
It, can, not
Skinny & skinny &
Skinny so skinny &
Skinny & skinny &
Ghostly & skinny &
Can, not, can, not, can, not
Can, not, can, not, can, not
Limp draggle draggle dress
Limp draggle one-piece dress
Limp draggle draggle dress
Limp draggle one-piece dress
Gray stripes & gray stripes &
Gray stripes & gray stripes &
Limp draggle draggle dress
Limp draggle one-piece dress
She never gray stripes &
She never gray stripes &
She never gray stripes &
She never gray stripes &
She never never &
She never never &
White, hair, &
White, hair, &
White, hair, &
White, hair, &
Canvas shoes canvas shoes
Canvas shoes sloppy shoes
She never canvas shoes
She never never shoes