Oh I could drink a case of you darling
And I would still be on my feet
Oh I would still be on my feet
_____________ - Joni Mitchell
inside, the telephone
rings
by buzzing
blue-black Farrington people
a Chinese-woman-looking object
stuffed with
advice
prostitutes on sawed-America
sponge clowns
making cakes and
dancing around them ____________________ [the subject]
bless you, the Capricorn
of my summer sunburn and
bruise
recovery known by durations
the baby
birds
on the window pane
how they pluck smiles
like the feathers
they don’t have
yet
the second flight
of stairs
feels better
than the first
you tried to sleep
for three days
and I stopped calling
you in the morning
already tired
of peeking
into your breaking