four

First,
Your hair goes
Then
Your hearing goes
Then
Your vision goes
Then
Your prick goes
Then
Your knees go
Then
Your liver goes
Then
Your lungs go
Then
Your gums go
Then
Your nose goes
Then
Your tennis court goes
Then
Your nightclub goes
Then
Your partners go
Then
Your colleagues go
Then
Your parents go
Then
Your children go
Then
Your friends go
Then
Your savings go
Then
Your brakes go
Then
Your appetite goes
Then
Your sense of smell goes
Then
Your sense of humor goes
Then
Your feet go
Then
Your toaster goes
Then
Your teeth go
Then
Your stamina goes
Then
Your temper goes
Then
Your smile goes
Then
Your calm goes
Then
Your skin goes
Then
Your house goes
Then
Your office goes
Then
Your balance goes
Then
Your transmission goes
Then
Your car goes
Then
Your wife goes
Then
Your shoes go
Then
Your dog goes
Then
Your tonsils go
Then
Your fingernails go
Then
Your eyebrows go
Then
Your toenails go
Then
Your drink goes
Then
Your kidneys go
Then
Your patrons go
Then
Your parakeet goes
Then
Your landline goes
Then
Your cable goes
Then
Your signal goes
Then
Your news goes
Then
Your education goes
Then
Your travel goes
Then
Your tires go
Then
Your bladder goes
Then
Your colon goes
Then
Your shoes go
Then
Your radio goes
Then
Your pets go
Then
Your memory goes
Then
Your landscape goes
Then
Your clock goes
Then
Your broadband goes
Then
Your Wi-Fi goes
Then
Your cell goes
Then
Your wardrobe goes
Then
Your continence goes
Then
Your content goes
Then
Your container goes
Then
Your patience goes
Then
Your libido goes
Then
Your insomnia goes
Then
Your anger goes
Then
Your hunger goes
Then
Your pain goes
Then
Your boredom goes
Then
Your nerves go
Then
Your waiting goes
Then
Your persistence goes
Then
Your mailing address goes
Then
Your mobile goes
Then
Your locator goes
Then
Your center goes
Then
Your core goes
Then
Your breath goes
Then
You go

AFTER WANG WEI

Deep blue sky, ice mountains jutting upwards
Morning as you prepare for further travel
I recommend you have another drink
     text everyone you’re okay
No cell service above Tengboche

X 2018

NOT YET DEAD PRESIDENT
(HOMAGE TO ED DORN)

So, what denomination will
Be graced with his face?
Surely the three dollar bill

IN MEMORY OF TOM CLARK

Critical to destroy knowledge
Which fades instantly
So the destruction of the library
Whether Alexandria or Congress
Might give hope
The knowledge that has corrupted
Might become mere distilled water
No knowledge like ash
Ash like air
And consistent like memory
It glows away
A word at a time
The green lawn beckoning
Momentary like something
Something like momentary

2 IX 2018