
I am so lazy

when morning comes

all I want to do is roll back into myself.

I only want to wake up

early enough to drink coffee

and listen to the records that spin

the sun from the sky

and listen to the world happen

as it is happening.

Outside my window,

there is a church bell

fat in brass and song and holy

sometimes I want to swallow it

For once I want to touch it

something beautiful without breaking it.

I am so lazy!

All I want to do is hold beautiful things--

tambourines

flowers

fresh rain

silk sorry

honesty covered in honey

a watermelon slice

a plate full of grandmother's cooking

a hot tortilla

a diamond smile

a pretty girl's hand


All I want to do is bend my hand into a chest

where sacred things are kept

where I can write poems in blood

in gold

in love and love and love

the person you love is 72% water

All I want to do is find an ocean worthy of drowning in

All I want to do is laugh at myself for wanting so many things

Want

is the body's way of remembering what it does not have

So I may not have much

but I can open my mouth

and any space becomes a stage

and I can watch nothing but honesty come out.

Gosh, what a wonderful thing!

To be lazy in a world that will always be lazy with you.

To love in a world whose heart is an ocean

holding us up

waiting for you

to love it back.
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Zachary Caballero is a musician and his instrument is words.
He joins several other musicians of his kind with the Austin Poetry Slam group, who collectively transform poetry from the most dreaded part of a student's English curriculum to the utmost emotional and eloquent form of expression.
For Zach, stringing words together is a hobby and a skill he has evidently mastered. He calls it cathartic. If I was asked to describe blogging in a single word, I'd call it that--cathartic. During our email exchange, I expressed my appreciation for his gift and my empathy for how passions like his and mine benefit oneself just as much as one's respective audience, and that's the beauty of it.
He said it perfectly:
"I believe everyone can bring joy to the world, because we are inherent with goodness, inherent in our ability to bring light in all that we do. I'm just lucky enough to have found the one thing that keeps me humble and balanced and happy."Thanks to BOD, I have too.