i am no better than you

[bennie2]

i am no better than a candle
or the bark of a house on a midnight lonely

i am no better than the dovetail joint maker

i am no better than the red of the letterbox on the corner
piss smelling and paint flaking as it is, i'm no better

i am no better than the coiled cord of a telephone
those pretty little things amuse me, man, and i'm no better

i am no better than those funny looking birds up there man
"check us out, we's the city" as they mock the skyline

i am no better than dog shit, ginsberg woulda called that shit "holy"

i am no better than this brass cappo with its rubber stop and little spring screw to tighen against the fretboard

i am no better than the bits of oose (sounds like "loose") that gathers in the belly button of another man. that's always blue and i seldom paint my face.

i am no better than the sky

i am no better than an owl

i am no better than a frog

i am no better than someone elses laughter

i am no better than a sunday

i am no better than this fucked window shade lying on the floor here. it gathers dust like a furry mantle.

i am no better than the things of the sea, some of which glow under the luminance of the moon. read about that shit in Hemmingway.

i am no better than a tin of fairly inexpensive dogfood, although i may be more moralistic

i am better, however, than i used to be.

[bennie2]

i've just had a very thick vanilla milkshake. it's crazy hot here today. hot for us pale blue folk of scotland. so i had a milkshake before the train... perhaps that explains the overuse (or use even) of the word "man" in that thing!

[westcoast]

i am better, however, than i used to be.

me too..

some interesting lines as always from your scotsman's brain.

[bennie2]

my scotsman's brain.

ha. that sounds like a good name for an emo band.

thanks, westie.

[Lightning Rod]

bennie, you are the image of humility
too bad that the only way to get humility is to be humiliated

[mtmynd]

"i am no better than this fucked window shade lying on the floor here. it gathers dust like a furry mantle."

i hope you're not worse than that fucked window shade lying on the floor there, gathering dust like a furry mantle... I simply could not see it.

[gypsyjoker]

I think your are a better than me

You are a poet

Just happy to read you

beautiful poem bennie,

Reminds me
this bit
about paperclips

"I know / there is / perfection in the being / of my being, / that I am / holy in amness / as stars or / paperclips,"

A. R. Ammons