Literate Rubble

by  Shaun Lawton 

for Charles Carter 

  Well met on the other side we'll be

our crossed paths serendipity 

 for the last time we fall asleep

all our shared knowledge

  we collected from each other's dreams 

will be accounted for

 some faces forgotten 

sunk in the woven mandala

  the year of perfect vision 

 showed us the way by example.

Castscatterwing

 by   shaun lawton 

Ah, Cast your nets

 toward Saskatchewan. 

 Basking as you wandered

off a once upon a time

ago so so and so could go

on and fawn on about it

every once in awhile 

making you smile while 

found down somewhere

around Saskatchewan.

I get it and I'm never

going to forget it the 

cats caterwauling 

and bats scattering 

on the wing of a cast 

of slung shot characters

adrift on the wind, yes

deep down underground

Just south of what you thought

You found in Saskatchewan. 

Double Dirty Chai

by Shaun Lawton

 

"There was not a party," insisted the barista. 

"There wasn't anything going on, really."

 We turned around and left. 

"That was a beat scene," she said. 

  "We sure could use some coffee," I replied.

"You cannot be poisoned without an ID," she lied.  

We are plugged into the system, I thought. 

 Linked in with a microchip.  So we turned and went back.

We stood in line and got scanned in with extra credit. 

"Don't back down," she whispered to me. 

"Or you're never going to get it." We ordered

a couple of Double dirty chais instead

using nothing but the field in our head. 

I didn't know what to say at all,

just glad I'd set up a Pay Pal.

Ever since I began to date her

I'd wait to check the tab in my inbox later

Ever since transactions went neural interface

It really helped to free us to meet again, face to face