6/24/18 10:21AM
i am an absurd conundrum
for all but a few
and to them
i am sure i am no less perplexing
even with structure
the moon shines brightly and sets
i watch it like i
watched the sun
go down over those
smiling sifter sisters i met on the beach
looking for beach glass i told them
i would come and smash bottles so they would find their treasure
and then i drove away
the swallow i saw today
flew so damn close to the ground
and i almost thought it would crash
until it swooped upwards to a gale
and broke its wings on a truck
or maybe it was a seagull
fucking rats, they are
all of my fellow groundskeepers
smoke pot and languish
instead of soberly waste
like i do
it’s easy in the company
of spinsters stuck in the jankest part of buffalo’s swamps
but there’s five miles of trails in back
where i’m sure someone died to
a stone knife
some time ago
i fell in love with chestnut eyes
in tight pants and a red jacket
pull me off the goddamn trailer
like you do those plants that
people just drag out of the lake
my shift starts when she begins
and i spend the rest of the day
caring about the environment
one day quail bones
and clamshells will be enough
to keep my digestion right
and my heart from burning