Tuesday, May 23, 2023

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Once you've been
exhausted 

by the 
nauseating pace

of the races 
and the somersaults 

and the hide-
and seek of youth, 

you will be 
the first in line 

to buy 
into your life 

as a camera roll 
of memory proofs

and a key chain 
full of words 

and phrases,
which only obey 

the shape
of your face.

 * 

Don't you believe 
in reincarnation? 
That is

to say—
don't you think 
the trees and grasses 

arrayed outside 
your window 

will continue 
to play in 
invisible breezes 

after you 
are gone? 

*

"I don't believe this!"

As if doubting 
the truth 

were our way 
of catching it 

before it takes 
a nasty fall.