letter to a neighbour

door ajar / summer flies / this room a jar / you cross my mind / free from the funny farm or on parole again / vandalising your own house as i speak / what mouth has ever sealed its roof inside a head? / i see your point / a house needs breathing space / japanese knot weed may indeed spread into a wall between itself / between what is too fast to forget / too bare to remember / yes i see / building a cave could be a breeze / if nowhere looms an absolute for absolution to ablute / and tomorrow your plan for a toilet of grey breeze-blocks draws the invisible boundary line you’ve built it on / the line we say we sanction /
                                                when i asked a friend how much to shoot you in the head i thought i was joking / a walrus moustache sunning itself in your front trench / gesture puppeted / the way a home and what it’s not happen to abrade each other as laughter in a body / as your red laser gun sight unzips through curtains my living room wall / between itself / between /
                                                between you and me i think i’m falling for your disfigurings / like the share of our mortgage my friend injected at a variable rate / his teenage years arriving at me through a dream of my teenage home / the back half built of particle board with a shelf life of canned fruit / secreted / we coughed and coughed to hack up tangible architecture / a viscous skeleton standing on air / blue pink / someone else’s dwelling deposited not by standing orders / shrinking sinks for hands / a plughole that were its eyes / a cockroach’s egg-pouch for mouth /
                                                i’m so still in the face of it i feel you dislodging inside / entering relations where are no relations / a clip of teenagers each showing how he could fuck friendly with a foot-stool / bearing earth from around your foundations in search of blood waving its little white dress against the tarn of your trench / as long as need be / the life led there to be spent /
                                                i even like your idea of swearing as a conservatory / red white orange muscles of carp rippling up a shimmering pond / orchids and fly-traps / humid heat of speech / a slew of stones it warms as hosts / yes / so many a terminal outlives its socket / and what is a promise if not a ghost? /
                                                that’s the genius of your cave as extension / transcendence is no planning permission / and what is a sun if not its removal? / discarded earth core / japanese knot weed / flies / your body charged to a shadow this / discharged