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Michael is currently living and working as a poet, pastor and martial artist in Hong Kong.

for mike doughty and hong kong in winter rain:

the twill and twiddle

twirling thumbs drum about the middle

essentially circling and circling

no rhyme or reason

motion and motion and motion forgotten

hands in laps like eyes to the ethereal

like sitting lotus

like

sitting mystic

sitting mysteriously

folding legs triangular

dynamic like a pyramid standing still

i think hot sand

feels good on rich brown skin

tanning in the coconut smell

white and creamy until rubbed in a dreammy

surfing the curling thumbs of the sick sea

green and blue

rolling white and white and washed away

the fingernails

of a mans hands who

was on the street

he

had nails

so clean in photo negative

grease oil stained

not like van gogh

oil or dali dough

or

weakness

but

oil like broke and poor and working too hard to

turn thumbs upon mirrors

but he is

he just doesn't know it

we all want coffee at the diner and a cigarette after dinner

sex upon a sunday morning and flowers after fall leaves

rain before our sunshine and mossy grey green mornings in irish spring

wisteria and hysteria

we don't want cuts on anything

no less but more and yet

twill and twiddle

thumbs turning 'round the middle

little flesh fans burning energy

and an effigy

of nothing.

love may be beuatiful but all sound dissipates in half lives lingering long after it's gone.