clouds are laughseveryone knows thatyou have to peel offthe leaders one byone from your skin& throw em at the walllike beer bottlesafter the afterpartythen lookupsun drunk in your skulltill a fox jogs outclouds are laughsi called the bar the poemby accidentthe poem’s been opensince 1930it was a schoolnow it’s noti stumbled inlike a regulari didn’t have tothere were no principalspoets were talkingabout a leaderless movementyou heard what neruda saidwe’ll eat in bed & fornicatein the kitchen if we wanthe said it in a movieto a communist womansick of cleaning bourgeois toiletswhen we’re all equalwho will we all be likethe poets wanted to knowlike what kind of fucking jobswould we havein order to feed each othercome over at 9, bring a 6we’ll have a reflectionof accidentsdaily city thoughts were barkthat cracked offthe dog of a treepetaled into some new thingwe could use or tossor riff offwe taught each other howto carry shards of heavenfriends left for uswhat’re you working on nowa rose petal in my heartpocket, a processionof looping desire & lossa book of fishesthat mirror cloudswe could put all our bookstogether to makeone book of fishwe pasted our poemson storefront windowsand ranlaughs passed thruour fingersa school of fishthe poem won’t go awayclouds are laughseveryone knows thatone day the poets allshowed up in the streetthis is real, the poem saidthis is realthe poem will openforeverthe poem won’t go awayit will happen againthe poets started showing upthe poets fought for rent controlthe poets fought for healthcarethe poets fought for educationthe poets fought for socialismthe poets fought for communismthe poets fought for open bordersand the grave won’t shut upthe grave won’t shut upthe grave keeps singingwe believe the customersare the futureso the students shut it downthe students shut it downover & overthe poem won’tgo awaythe future is absentchildren are childrenclouds are laughsstudents are anyonestudents are anyonewho know the deal