Carried Away

Send money to the lemmings so they stop pulling their chutes There’s a new book on Burroughs we must buy Dry as dry as can be cured by cracking beeswax This color feels good when I paint a splotch Top of the John Hancock for carrot cake to celebrate I don’t want to be late but early doesn’t sound good either Perhaps I should be on time One moment at a time

It’s all because of the letter V I wonder how we're going to save the world Taking money out of the Pig My heart and mind are two children Venom slows me down Ravens are lost in Duluth Cold as an owl irruption I forgot the age of unforgettable I save all of your sunsets She loves to study the Black Death Mining indigo with Greeks Bones break like glass

A dusty forgotten book found on how to rescue a relationship That can’t be rescued and would it have been? A dead man with a needle in his arm sitting on a toilet A waste of a perfectly good life, we get one A terminally ill girl who went to prom with her boyfriend and town I never went to prom, but I’m alive