2015:
New York, now that’s a town,
or hamlet; it depends
whether ones lives
for precision or artifice. I
am an officer, and no,
you cannot stand me up.
She is full of it.
The symphony and spectacle;
a million or so thumbs silencing
amber alerts, right now.
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And eating it out of their
Heirloom bowl, where the two
Of them have their things with
Meaning, where people will
Come and see that his
Hand is on the small of her back
And her back is on the
Small of his hand.
What relieves me?
A plume drifts out of stories
and smacks against an obscure spot
I find occasionally
I want to learn anew but
it would take many years
from now to start
Build a life around occasions
I secretly want to extend
pausing in their middle
marking half-way