Creatine capsules and vitamin D supplements —
I pay for Forever with a contactless tap.
I’ve been told my hair will fall out in auburn tufts.
(The quiet rebellion of underclass eye contact.)

When I lumber outside the sidewalks are quiet, foggy gray clouds,
If someone is talking I didn’t...

I shot my muse down in starlight
Watched his soul fly up sky high.
He’s a skeleton, sardine ribs
In a metal tin.
I saw my burdens disappear,
Overhead vultures settled near.
I mopped up his last pawprints,
Leaned the mop outside to rinse.
I still haven’t journaled in over a yea...

I know now that I have always dreaded that name. Mary, an embalmed name, like a brooding English queen or a dour old maid who corrals the schoolchildren in the courtyard. Or Mary, disgusting white trash: Appalachian royalty, Camel Crush and baby bump. It is an evil name, a darkly silent sprawl for thousands of acres...