Black Ops

for Jimmy Dunagan

The countdown (backwards):
The Jewel of Denial
The Breeze & I
A Man at the Table
              didn’t necessarily look like Joan Crawford with a beard
Francois Villon

“A man has got to know his limitations”

different names for inconvenient body parts

There you are
& there you go

“thine true heritage”

beneath the indisputable California sky which I know you
depend upon as much as I & gaze up into it when nothing else
makes sense
                              as thankfully so little does
              cloudy or clear