how did i get trapped by goodness

headless chicken squawk
contagious spit

no good
this day

but others are branded

you want brandy?

my traditional tibetan healer told me
less alcohol
no more than a glass

guilty the day after

ugh. those day afters

i lost my bra
that i just began to wear

have you ever burned one?

burning...

i may have jumped too quickly
without weighing other options


my preoccupations are space, bodies, gaps,
grief

tense body
past eyebags

past tense
of body bag


bye

i looked back after leaving the train
i was still sitting there

good thing I had my keys in my hand

i'm always losing my keys



that waiter
reminded me so much of an ex
my receipt is about to blow away

the big man at the next table
asked for sweet and low

and that little child was wearing
an Old Navy t-shirt

the woman talked to an old man on the train who started talking to her while leaning over her shoulder to read her papers and she responded because she rarely speaks to people over seventy like him, and she laughed saying really? entrepreneur, huh?


belonging is complicated