Wednesday, March 16, 2022


 





when she happened upon joe frank on the uptown local late one night

 





fractured route to undeserved blame

anti-personal bombs

like she’s seen all her life

in a sly way intended

like the wedding cake greets the knife

those bits of her that have been bloodied

what parts have been rendered

do they reek unhurried

salt among the scented 

on a late-night uptown train

she tested the field phone inside her

it held off guerillas

it fined the decriers

she asked for and got the nothing 

programmed like all the others

now seated across from her

apart from the others’ fur she was

wrapped in chancy sentimental

a list of liars in his back pocket

smelled of caution and secretive black light 

she saw him before the brain kicked in

his playbill rolled into undone

she, the spymaster was rigid with won

across the aisle of not fun

she on her own across the aisle 

recognizable mentor

his wife his savior his partner who knew

when she was sudden and leaden and undiscovered

basement-level of her own invention

imagine how hard it was to reign in

crazy to tell him he grew her

 

when the fresh eggs you are given

drop into your open palm

wash your hands it could kill you

or make you sing psalms

for the birth of anything animal or mineral

the thing humans crave are subliminal

 

she saw him on the uptown train

coming back from nothing remotely insane

what we have is embedded discovery

she shouts headless and crazed

no voice no sound

she recovers her ignorant gaze

he lowered his head undiscovered by her

playbill in hand

crazy to tell her he knew

 

3.15.22 nyc

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