This is a test of the emergency broadcast system

Before anyone got here
a kind of disease
just not as impetuous

One returns to
a clumsy mortality at best
              & ankle deep
as it was still possible
                              (like the LXXXI Canto printed on a grain of sand)
to leap from the edge of yourself

                                                ie, the beer bottle window ledge balcony

but blue blue water cut w/white foam
              (as the seagull said to Obysseus)
Leucothea, submerged
                              prayer flags whipping in the winds of chance

in the wind, anyway

expecting all that is oblivious
& tender