gone

i'm really bummed about heath ledger.
his sudden death is really hitting me hard for some reason and i just can't stop thinking about it.

why does exceptional talent and beauty always have to go first? he was one of the good guys.

this may seem really callous, but people such as the current lot of no-talent, drug/booze snuffling crack-packers seem to just go on and on, ever in the news, partying, passing out, wrecking cars, destroying their careers and kids.....
they are the ones who, in my opinion, should be on the "out" list.

heath ledger was a real star.
i'll miss watching him work.

Beauty

insideoutside

horns are beep, beep, neeep, eep eeeeeeeping
cherry bombs pow pow, kapow, pow pow pow
dogs bark bark bark, growlf, gruff, bark bark
people in the box, blapity blah blah, laaaaaa

clock times tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick
fingers click clack, click, clack, click click
atvs vroom vroom, blaaaappppp, vroom vroom
kids play hee heee, squeal, shout, ha haaaaaa

Marine

Rippling silver mercury passes by my anchored consciousness,
the sun rising like so many dawns,
overhead with silence and deafening songs.

I am helpess, watching as glass filaments plunge,
laden with good, beautiful, bad and ugly on golden barbs
destined, but chanced, for unwilling destructive flight.

And they come,
one by one my lovliest thoughts, my imaginative, painted muses
are ripped from their pensieve, fighting and struggling.

They lie here now,
colours fading, breath slowing, dying before my very eyes
on the floor where they were unceremoniously discarded.

My voyage continues,
back to the point of departure, sailing with my lifeless thoughts
as I take them home, their fate fulfilled, a feast, for all, their future.

Present

Golden truths
never
more truly
told
than by
copper coins
in
silver boxes,
bags,
ribbons
and bows...