A Prayer to the T-Girl in the Back
Home / Page A Prayer to the T-Girl in the Back Butterball and saffron God of blinding Red Lotus gold conch beneath you rest me here in peace or pieces till my soil bring thy waters to my valley come unto me and onto me in sticking velvet nights ten thousand degrees of humidity jazz …
Falling
Home / Page Falling the next breeze cannot come from the Sea the breath of life sweet and sour smell of lips yet to kiss tobacco and booze candy and cakes hollow memories of clenched hands and teeth snapjaw smile pull me so close I fall through you pull me so close I just plain …
A Toast To Gloriana
Home / Page A Toast To Gloriana glory unto Gloriana The Dancer in the Moon each spin she spins the great cycle begins until she dances her dances again pour one for me and two for thee my Glorious Gloriana Dancer in the Moon Home / Page
Girl-Dick
Home / Page Girl-Dick outdoor cunt frothing hyena pussy Ghost with the most electric spotlight bussy monster to some men to some women bottom-half ass top-half centaur shield maiden spear laden inked cut pressed kill fuck eat this moment’s own fixation a product of environment an example of nature Home / Page
I Dream of You (Again)
Home / Page I Dream of You (Again) I dreamt of you last night just before I fell asleep drifting thoughts drifted to you I found myself thoughtlessly fruitlessly smiling and stroking my own face a mock attempt to feel your cheek near mine the phantom weight of you in my empty arms you haunt …
Next Stop: Hell
Home / Page Next Stop: Hell “I wasn’t sure we’d all fit in here” he said, climbing into the handbasket Home / Page
I Am Become Jenny, Destroyer of Worlds
Home / Page I Am Become Jenny, Destroyer of Worlds after sage counsel from my neighbor’s dog a map was drawn from here to there bring extra paper but only one pen carry your wallet but bring your purse we strike at midnight each night for a century when the winds die down victory will …
Viper Teeth
Home / Page Viper Teeth viper teeth frame my tongue taste poison lip gloss glitter made of bone dust chalky glow of ghost the sometimes smell of flowers the sometimes smell of bison dainty are the giant’s feet that pirouette across the cemetery here among the pansies is a thorn to thine prick a trap …
The Dundee Spider
Home / Page The Dundee Spider in Dundee there is a spider with no name or eyes a fiddle rests on every shoulder the spider plays a lament for flies come to me my dinner come to me my friend I’ll feast away your story I’ll be the author of the end strings and maggots …
We Fell
Home / Page We Fell we fell we fell and fell and fell with no bottom we learned to crawl and to walk in mid-free-fall able to stand firmly on nothing the ground is coming ready your knees and back lick your lips and kiss your ass goodbye Home / Page
Tank Girl
Home / Page Tank Girl I’m the creature that gets the night the longest of the legged in me the smells-bad lipstick fembilly Elvis and Elvira glitter on everything mirrors on every plane my hair melts in curlers my heels break under the weight of the big girl Bigfoot the dreamed of dreamer maddened Queen …
Dispatch From an Unknown War
Home / Page Dispatch From an Unknown War in the vault of St Priscilla beneath the Zerengov Star Fortresses Ordo de Guerra Montero fell to the point and to the shell and to the blade and to the gas and the fire and the razor wire and the needle drones and the cluster hives and …
The Inquisitor
Home / Page The Inquisitor it doesn’t make sense must it? unplugged little shits believe themselves masters yet they shake and tremble and cry a preacher once told me how much they hate God how dare they fill the Earth? how dare there be beauty? Home / Page
My Privilege
Home / Page My Privilege an oath in fourteen words because they can’t remember more so busy hiding in plain sight trembling at the idea of real freedom shaking and spitting at the idea that there is more than the pale empty photo album hiding hate crimes and sex crimes such a privilege to be …
Tommy of Doubt
Home / Page Tommy of Doubt people are strange when you’re a people faces come out of the rain ich bin ein Papagei ich bin ein Betrüger afraid of fear itself preacher of the latter day law skunk in the shed diamond in the hill Buffalo Bill paper doll yes I would no more Tommy …
Wish In One Hand
Home / Page Wish In One Hand Threvold Marqeteque stole a heart so clumsy was she or careless or clever to leave her heart beneath an upturned basket in secret fair Grisnia of The Ashes wanted him to work for her affection she only desired it not take all day Home / Page
The Falling Girl
Home / Page The Falling Girl from the window fell a girl who couldn’t ever land they fell and fell and it felt like Hell but there was nowhere for her to stand gaining ground is not a thing when there is no ground around the day it all changed it started to rain the …
Escape!
Home / Page Escape! We try to escape our youth nightly. Cigarettes and old movies. Things our parents can’t appreciate. Things their parents liked. The cycle is a gross machine. Samsara. Time makes us love our Grandparents more than they deserve and hate our parents more than they deserve. We do this back and forth …
Break Out
Home / Page Break Out fingerless piano player tickling nothing nothing along the slick back of outstretched night steel cats crawl glowing eyes guttural purring we are not at home at home hermit crab troubles in slug hives of rust outgrowing her home she kicked open the door Home / Page
Legio ⅩⅪ Pulchra
Home / Page Legio ⅩⅪ Pulchra I am the thoughtless specter we are Legio XXI Pulchra multidrive meat mamma terror of the self bring unto me a seed that cannot be corrupted offer unto us a feather that cannot be lifted smite me to us a sacrifice of the self to the self Ygdrasil tower …
Kazakh Apple Trees in Tadpole Pools
Home / Page Kazakh Apple Trees in Tadpole Pools I once returned to the primordial swamp humid and sticky the air itself got you high there among the rushes the reeds and ancient brush in a puddle there was the first of us it blinked new eyes and shit in the water something something apple’s …
TMI, Coffee, and a Bagel
Home / Page TMI, Coffee, and a Bagel when he saw his death he was utterly unimpressed it left him with a bland taste like a stale treat something you knew would be great but crumbled away dry and you never cared to finish there would be no great painting of him in the Museums …
Spinning Top
Home / Page Spinning Top I dream of playing with my spinning top delicate and small in my too-big hands if I wind them upright they’ll play all day there is no joy like playing with my spinning top Home / Page
The Miserable Moose
Home / Page The Miserable Moose the Moose knuckles up to the bar “give me that which would please me” says the Moose “you’re all set, you miserable bastard” replies the Barkeep thusly the transaction is done the moon feels extra cold as it scolds them through the streets of night and puddle stars Home …
I Was Once A Wizard
Home / Page I Was Once A Wizard i was once a wizard magic was easy thumb through ancient and arcane text light some candles tell yourself it’s working eye of newt breath of bat whisper from a grave secret from a cat the gods are very real if you are loose with the word …
Winning Doesn’t Always Feel Like Winning
Home / Page Winning Doesn’t Always Feel Like Winning Holy shit. Do the slings and arrows of grave misfortune weigh a ton or what? You will make it through. This I swear; you can make it through. There will be a strange counter—parade formed around you. A line to either side. What was once called …
How Sweet Are You?
Home / Page How Sweet Are You? how sweet are you? we see you and smile we see you and sigh we see you and smile again held aloft by brute dreams that fall apart at their seams the world of men is pretend a ghost came to me and whispered of thee “It’s from …
History Repeats
Home / Page History Repeats bursting from the bellies of giants to feast at the table of spiders the Band of Saint Ulgar’s Men rained arrow and shot and curses Ferenguld the Druid removed each odd finger and drew them as lots point to point the future was clear this was a fucking mess eat …
Unknown
Home / Page Unknown unowned is the land where the dead march to war unsowed is the land where the fat starve and skinny feast unsafe is the land where pages light like torches unseen is the land where humans are free Home / Page
Lemme Explain
Home / Page Lemme Explain you are the particle karma is the wave each of us here at the tip of the smear a streak of people across time violent brush strokes spoking out from the first center you are part of that explosion that explosion is your first name Home / Page
Embrace Me
Home / Page Embrace Me reach beyond reach under star and skirt alike veil intents with grimace hide your exploding hand in my waistband dance the dance you planned on your way smile and fumble your practiced offering I accept, fair boy I accept you into my embrace I accept you into my cult Home …
A Prayer to the Three-Eyed Skunk
Home / Page A Prayer to the Three-Eyed Skunk I stayed with dragons when I was young. To be held by a dragon is to be held so fast that not even your own heart’s beat can move you. In the arms of a dragon I rested once and only once, but because of that …
It All Comes To Us
Home / Page It All Comes To Us ten thousand years ago a bullet was fired in an arch it climbed into heaven and soared back into view it comes bearing names etched in oil etched in rust leaden heart weight the cracking thunder of your ancient past this bullet has your name dance and …
God
Home / Page God if God is in all things God is great God is fine and God sucks all things means all things not just things we like if there is no God no-thing found in all things then all things are equally empty not just things we don’t like the thorn that pricks …
I’m Going To Need You
Home / Page I’m Going To Need You I’m going to need you to put your hand on my thigh grip don’t squeeze then lift leaving only your fingertips and drag them in I’m going to need you to squeeze don’t grip my ass as you pull me in press against me through me kiss …
Bite My Lip
Home / Page Bite My Lip bite my lip for I shall not again stumble tongue near to say i love you i bit my lip in pain in pain i sit back self-censored and silent i’m sore from it my back my heart my lips bite my lip for I shall not again i …
Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here
Home / Page Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here 🕱 a rotten grape press 🕱 🕱 on my chest 🕱 🕱 re-purposed 🕱 🕱 re-imagined 🕱 🕱 the museum piece 🕱 🕱 execution sabre 🕱 🕱 a misidentified 🕱 🕱 prop from a play 🕱 🕱 they draw on but a quarter 🕱 🕱 …
Blacktooth
Home / Page Blacktooth black and blue we taste the crimson the warm drink of defeat I remember bruises in Royal Blue in Air Force Blue I remember yellow green purple red black snag a vein and play in Fountains of Youth and Joy in some professions suicide gets you a medal my blood is …
Trusting
Home / Page Trusting it is only through trust that I bleed outstretched arms hold me if you dare alone I cut and carve team borne I am stuck here waiting for your part in after the third measure they signal but do not play the crescendo Home / Page
Discovery
Home / Page Discovery I saw you you see we see eachother like you I sprout from walls and fade into shadows timid just about to dance always about to dance half smile other half terror what if I’m discovered? no one gets upset discovering a new star Home / Page
A Cry to the Mother of All
Home / Page A Cry to the Mother of All O’ toothless goddess great sucker-punched mother great Madonna of the street lend me six bucks lend me your heart lend me your wisdom my friends are all Romans with no countrymen short on ears and eyes across the river is victory O’ wingless mother carry …
Your Self
Home / Page Your Self the cult of conquering angels no arms only tentacles careful of the suckers deny them their grip under the firm force of all that could be the innumerable saints enact innumerable miracles across the immeasurable span never bow again never bend you save the world Home / Page
Depth of Sadness
Home / Page Depth of Sadness under blanket snow or dirt my mind leads down shadow paths I’m not worried wonka tunnel memories flashes back and forth how do I float in the swamp of sorrow? there is warmth in the half drowning the melancholy of Deep-Sadness SCUBA of being in the moment Home / …
Throatless
Home / Page Throatless throatless the wind cools an empty scream dry parts meant wet out looking for a well full of baskets steel hook grip wrought iron grin VENI VENI VENI VIDI VICI VICI so hard EDURUS VENI hang high the banner of the cracked sky of day roll out the carpet we hide …
What Made It Back
Home / Page What Made It Back I came home gritty the bits too tiny to scoop up or sweep make their way between my toes before you know it you’re it not just it that thing the thing that thinks it’s that thing the thing inside that causes your arm to raise when a …
GD BD
Home / Page GD BD in fifteen minutes I level up or out happy birthday, Girl! what did you wish for? staring down the barrel of a candle lit cake what dream of dreams what wish of wishes do you make over this pyre? just this only this all of this is more than I …
They Forgot About Poetry
Home / Page They Forgot About Poetry they forgot about poetry called it gay but wrote it anyway baby baby ooooh baby baby no falling stars on weeping fields no slumbering hills no driving waterfalls the dulling of the soul is not a sign of manhood your clumsiness with your own heart is the sign …
Getting What You Want
Home / Page Getting What You Want steeple gripped palms in French tipped grace Venice is a mask hide me from you you to whom I pray of all the things to want I fear my desires may ruin me I want to get fucked smoke dances to invite war to invite death thank you, …
Bodhisattva Unreasonable-Expectations
Home / Page Bodhisattva Unreasonable-Expectations to my secret soldiers unawakened ghosts you have been students of bad teaching and I am here to be worse the skills of Simon Says and repeat after me are done I expect jazz and howling epics I expect temples to the future I expect temples to the world we …
They Forgot About Poetry
Home / Page They Forgot About Poetry they forgot about poetry called it gay but wrote it anyway baby baby ooooh baby baby no falling stars on weeping fields no slumbering hills no driving waterfalls the dulling of the soul is not a sign of manhood your clumsiness with your own heart is the sign …
Material Use
Home / Page Material Use blind in reeds blind in rush sticky air tasking every cut reveals more jungle path to mother boats and bridges away chains and gavels away cast iron first tree gifts smiles in materiel first to hold us first to be forgotten cradle of my days cradle of all days stripped …
Rhapsody in Blue|Orange|Silver
Home / Page Rhapsody in Blue|Orange|Silver out West but not quite flies a flag in the wind on it is illuminated what they once feared most what they once held dear what they once killed cooked and ate the Goose that laid the Golden Eggs ask anyone in town and they’ll tell you why “we …
Go-Go-Go
Home / Page Go-Go-Go there is an army a legion a League there is a blank cheque a tacit approval a fixed green light our enemies make their own bed we just jump on it Knights of the Realms Knights of the Neon Night The Great Khan of the Solar West Jenny Durden says your …
Wait For Me
Home / Page Wait For Me empty void arm rest the walking plot the grave of expectation I move my arm to the small of your back but you’re gone I heard you step next to me the clicking of my own heels the beating of my heart I wish you were here Bubba I …
A Monster Went to Sea
Home / Page A Monster Went to Sea colossi of meat when does your song end? tower over green and orange golem of man and used to be the tear in your throat reveals the tear in your eye sweet giant whisper old chants mumble sodt hymns to the dusk a ship waits just there …
We Move
Home / Page We Move there is goodness in force there amassed already dim bulbs in need of charge lightning vehicles aren’t fast enough diamond vehicles are too hard this vehicle broken stew of puppet parts of unfinished thoughts of winter’s regret of sleeping up and adam Home / Page
The Weight of What We Don’t Know
Home / Page The Weight of What We Don’t Know o when to weren’t beyond the dusky fall she shivered off the cold and shook on the heat mired in the mire of admiration held aloft by lofty ideas manicured and pedicured for the funeral of a friend pale dart of starlight grand disc of …
Good Intentions
Home / Page Good Intentions the further I push my phone through my sinuses and into my brain I understand where we’re headed It still vibrates knock loose sense and sensibility knock loose teeth and tears plastiglass wasabi click I run a factory that makes paving stones for the road to hell Home / Page
répétez s’il vous plaît
Home / Page répétez s’il vous plaît if you would please repeat after me I am more than enough I am the same ape that built A-Bombs⛧ the Hagia Sophia© and The Slinky™ if I suffer it is not alone even alone I am among the lonely if I fail it is not the end …
Ice In My Bones
Home / Page Ice In My Bones there is ice in my bones a creeping needle gripping barb ice ice in my bones a gift of Christmas past fear of future underpass overachiever push the needle through I cannot pull it out no feather for this arrow point Home / Page
Mask Collector
Home / Page Mask Collector I am the monster Baba Yaga Medusa No-Eyed One-Eyed Fate Thread-Stitcher Thread-Cutter Hanger-of-Mosses-and-Skins Tooth-Glimmer Claw-Mark Footless-Dragon Winged-Snake Ghost of guys and dolls Home / Page
The Mind Spike
Home / Page The Mind Spike the mind spike has thorns from back to front front to back its direction matters not pause break grip pull in any direction tear in the other turn in kind wrecked clutter of sparks again your engine whurs throw down your knives the mind spike has thorns Home / …
I’m Sorry
Home / Page I’m Sorry I’m sorry the sorriest thing in site besides that We apologize I know our words are sweet I know my words are razors I know that not everything in here is for you it’s for me for us the many that call themselves I all of us know the rules …
So Mad I Could Howl
Home / Page So Mad I Could Howl I’ll sleep when I’m dead I doubt even that is true axioms are the mark of the lazy wide-eyed into the furnace or hole of your choosing bushy-tailed into whatever horseshit yarn how I “light up rooms” if I were a parrot it’d be named chip this …
Letter to a Ghost
Home / Page Letter to a Ghost ghost we knew thee well slippery thin thing invisible to those that would ignore you not one stretch of clockface real estate is absent of your glow I have forsworn dreaming now if my eyes ever close it will be to see you there burned in my memory …
In Both Ears
Home / Page In Both Ears they didn’t know the whispers came in pairs from outside the whisper of doubt from inside the whisper of courage leaning in or out they hear one voice over another the channels left and right in and out look to a center harmony driven by the beat of a …
Wonky Eyes
Home / Page Wonky Eyes we don’t have use for this use is ever present with this fire I can burn myself cyberpunk hand displays dystopian sideways smiles imagine if you had to read everything off the face of the Bat Signal to stare into the sun to pluck plastic flowers ugly to touch Home …
Go Right Ahead
Home / Page Go Right Ahead I stab at thee John Lennon of course it would be fucking nice to imagine a thing is easy to do the thing is hard to tell someone to do it is easy to help someone do it is hard to tell someone they need help is easy to …
Splat
Home / Page Splat our guts fall wet and with a kalpa’s momentum splatter to the floor catching on gurney wheel break dust bunny homes stray eyelashes and cat hairs bits of rock and glimmers of sand we exist as silly putty mush threaded through expectations and bones I know where to hide it how …
November
Home / Page November in November we marched for war so far away no one saw playing games until dawn the lines never drawn we left the line up at the door boneless skinless babies faultless featureless sons will there ever come a quiet will there ever be a home? under the lid cooks the …
O’ Zombie
Home / Page O’ Zombie O’ zombie walking dead future ghost and shade we have awoken among storytellers a species dedicated to everything but this life O’ zombie we resurrected you to bring you to a funeral street light pyre lungless wail crushed camel underfoot no pallbearer you walk Home / Page
A Rebuttal to George Michael from a Veteran of the Global Wars on Terror
Home / Page A Rebuttal to George Michael from a Veteran of the Global Wars on Terror I don’t believe in God but I do have faith I met God on a mountaintop in old Bactria before we finished our cigarettes and went our separate ways into the snow-glittered night God said “Sorry” “I kinda …
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A Real World
Home / Page A Real World there is a real world out there I’ve been set fire by it there are no ghosts but I’ve seen what they meant camping at the base of Hell’s Mountain of A Thousand Needles there is no God but I met who they were talking about guessing coffin lengths …
Pathfinders
Home / Page Pathfinders we followed the path one put in front of us a dream of the long-dead picket fence cemeteries little pools of tears then I heard a noise a rustle from just off the path a calling from the dark from the forests the jungles the caves of childhood before long the …
When Summer Came
Home / Page When Summer Came when summer came you were gone I was here and neither were fair you laughed once bright like a lighthouse you reminded me of home that there were homes gleaming Spaniards pretty boys in pretty caskets with pretty flags and flowers it’s not fair sweet boy that I should …
Bad Leg
Home / Page Bad Leg I don’t get it out here at least under lace and stripe the day’s path is set integrity means something I’ve determined though it is fear that makes flakes and ghosts fear of confrontation fear of being found out so strange to not lead with your bad leg Home / …
Altars of Dust
Home / Page Altars of Dust I was once a ghost from six foot to six foot an undertaking of a lifetime I opened my heart on an altar of dust out dripped the puss the bile but never blood but now I bleed the cold iron Slush Puppy beat of a heart growing cold …
We Kidnap Our Neighbors
Home / Page We Kidnap Our Neighbors Ghost of Boulevard’s Past your gold is still gold today terror called boy blue jazz in electric fingers and hair lead in fourth of July wreaths steel in rings and bars and pins come over to me cross the river too long to spell oh Shenandoah girl I …
Nice Prison
Home / Page Nice Prison indoor submariner with few options for the flood hit the running lights hit the smoking lamp grab your jacket and your pipe to save time we print the fool on the kings soon the hangman and tower the age of revolution fell to reruns and remakes now we must resolve …
Breffesst
Home / Page Breffesst remember the smoke in the morning? cigarettes and kerosene carriers diesel gennies and those little Toyotas heavy steam of eggs and bacon still and accented by our dying coughs made better with the warm scent of coffee the feeling of heat reaching your bones every call was a heart-dropper until our …
Happy Fucking New Year
Home / Page Happy Fucking New Year people lack the resolve to do what must so they set aside a night to shed history and reestablish goals in the late morning wading through cups of coffee everyone compares their hopes for the dawning age quit smoking quit drinking start dieting start running apocalypse rears its …
Don’t Forget to Tip Your Waiter
Home / Page Don’t Forget to Tip Your Waiter crawling from its throat gag on willow wisps choke on lightning bugs mud swells from her heart dripping a cold toe from prom to the grave singing the old song of the south of the middle we feast at this table in mockery to joy folded …
I Can’t Help But Love You
Home / Page I Can’t Help But Love You you’d be surprised by most Warriors TV and Movies don’t do us justice so much blood you dopes know: blood out is blood out? eye for an eye? a debt for a debt? if we had it our way the United States Military would face off …
Shapeshifter
Home / Page Shapeshifter reverse werewolf changes in the sunlight crumbling boy crawls to towering woman besiege the gates to Hell and home strike away Valkyrie advances strike away Thor’s stupid games kneel before then sit in the jeweled lion throne Home / Page
Moon Baby
Home / Page Moon Baby we found life on that moon nothing living but life there was nothing there nothing beyond what we brought we raised families there that light we had jobs and hobbies we had tragedy that dark spot there you only saw blinking? Home / Page
Sillyvilians Are Disappointing
Home / Page Sillyvilians Are Disappointing what do you mean “we” not lifting a finger wear costumes to bed bottomless tops meandering weigh your sweat weigh your blood what do They that wish to be We do? not a fucking thing damn proud of it Home / Page
Castle-Faced Boy
Home / Page Castle-Faced Boy castle-faced critter stubbled respite of my lips of my cheek how do you tower over everything? I’m told I’m tall but you are always above me or do I just find myself smaller near to thee? lift me not just pick me up grip through my ribs right through to …
God and I
Home / Page God and I God and I fuck up all the time part of the plan you see? through my hand the Holy Ghost and I knock over the salt through my Johnny Cash voice we sing the Angel Band just a hint off key how could God watch me fail like this? …
Missing
Home / Page Missing I sometimes miss the tropics I miss sweating for no reason under the drone of a fan ready to quit her job like the rest of us in this fucking heat I miss sticking to you under a half-draped blanket of too-heavy cotton I miss hearing jazz and fights and cats …
Clothes
Home / Page Clothes nothing is mine and I am happy for it what do I possess beyond the contents of my gut? the contents of my lungs? the contents of my head? the shoes around my feet seem to possess me they wrap around over and under costumes in cosmic plays carousel paint mausoleum …
I Dream of You
Home / Page I Dream of You I dream of you every night just before I fall asleep drifting thoughts drift to you I find myself thoughtlessly fruitlessly smiling stroking my own face mock attempts to feel your cheek near mine the fantom weight of you in my empty arms you haunt me living ghost …
Not a Real Community
Home / Page Not a Real Community it is under no protest I protest this affair smashed fingers on the button take it I shall follow thee until I am fallowed like me really like me don’t forget to subscribe Home / Page
God’s Sister Peggy
Home / Page God’s Sister Peggy there is no God but God and his sister Peggy Peggy of the heights sleeps on clouds until the Sun comes to wake her then it runs away retreating into sunset ashamed to be out-glowed by the radiance of Peggy sister of God auntie of Christ best euchre partner …
In Winter
Home / Page In Winter there is brightness in the cOLD glimmer in eyes ice blues and browns and greens smiles under rose noses a little shiver in their speech difficult to maintain it lasts as long as the sun if you haven’t found warmth by nightfall you may not until the next day go …
Furnace People
Home / Page Furnace People passion players pinup boys the sacrifice of self to self phoenix stuff rebirth furnace shimmer in the dark a memory of desert nights with eyes closed I understand this is a zoo the orientation of the walls is the question the animals keep leaving their cages to fill my bowl …
Swampfeet
Home / Page Swampfeet we are grand things small and underleaf shrew spawn lemur spawn muppet spawn frogs along the banks of the swamp line in water break stillness break it all Death’s thud and slash on the drumbeat dirt we were young once just for that day not catching crawdads because I’d rather watch …