from The Unfollowing: 20

Wake up, get married, be born

First A and B pick up the trunk, then C relieves A and A wanders off, then D

takes B’s end and B goes in search of A, but A is nowhere to be found,

and C and D make off with the trunk

Long are the lazy man’s laws, the kittens are in the kitchen, the child’s chin aids

pronunciation 

Maybe I’m dreaming I’m naked except for a long black t-shirt I’m dreaming 

Bring on the aspirin and bread, the vitamin C and gin 

We have fourteen names for blue and that doesn’t even count “meridian” 

Diderot, Audrey Hepburn, Hegel, Charles Dickens, and Gertrude Stein 

Shadow bird shouting 

White coral fencing 

The butcher on Sunday, Pablo Ruiz, lives south of here (in F___) and has five

kids—how full of vitality he is

She leaves us behind in the interstices of competence

Origami, irreverence, sand on the wing of an ibis

She drops a bucket down a thick well, she whacks a golfball longer than a marble

Rude and shoed, should and lead, reed

Source: The Unfollowing (Omnidawn Publishing, 2016)