for only a minute
the boy I was & the man I’m pretending to be
cradled by the drizzle tide like Saigons of
parkinglot disdain & lamentation
in saecula saeculorum / Forever (& ever)
hoisting the
amphetamine pez dispenser
in
silhouette against the green concrete
to be set alongside the
rectangular blue
slab
I suppose represents either the oceanor the sky
a thin red line diagonal to a
scribble of turquoise
&
what could be a disemboweled Buick
sedan bleeding rust onto
the pink stucco wall
of a one bedroom rental just steps
from the beach
The girl I met there
how was I to know that she would be someone who
looked like you? whispering like a mist of rain
across the midnight pavement
