Ask Me Again

A machine specifically
                a program (the
ghost of it an alias
          from one to the next)
I don’t later resume
              nor one thing
        any more than the
other, something
waiting there
            (the time I liberated a case
                of Mexican beer)
put to that sense
          is a place a situation
enough to lie down on the sidewalk
in the rain
a passage apparently
          as thru smoked glass
                pale moonlight falls
against those eyes
          all tricked-out in
fever haze
            I wouldn’t know from
where I part the drizzle but that
you were there
              anymore than I

- Kevin Opstedal