1375

they’re giving me an award

for foresight

and I’m lighting matches

to drop in glasses of wine

what’s there to say

pull the air off me

with the beetles

does he know him

any differently

from a day left split open

like a ripe cantaloupe

and was anyone aware

cantaloupe has a U in it

for her

and a totem

and the sticky brambles

and those Newports

clicking around

the dash

he found in a Toyota Corolla

I’m still good

after all

what’s after all

if you can watch

if I can watch

funny videos

and scratch myself

without offending someone

undulating

like that dead language

I’m paper

and left to wonder

if the religious

think about the religious