how to retire from ecstatic /
strangle the person who suggests so /
it’s lonely twisting in the middle of the street /
always a pack of matches in the back pocket /
at the ready to toss on the perfect hedge /
or societal forecast for a precise plot of land /
embarrassed eagerly for the evaporating absurdity of it all /
swallowing tongues daily /
knowing the arguments are a mudslide burying the original inhabitants /
watching the cars dissipate along the line drawn /
beyond annual association meetings /
seeing the collapse and fragmentation of our home /
as all things knowing this earth are reclaimed /
in the street, at night, invoke /
what cannot become atoms /
but always arrives alone /
that eternity created daily
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