Sunday, July 2, 2023

The Truth About the Lies


The mustard end of my cigarette

collapsed the way a building collapses.

Tragedy at some point always happens,

especially to garage bands. 

Today, at the mailbox

a letter arrived. It read,

"I don't even know what to say." 

Neither did I.

As I twisted the filter 

with first my heal

then my toe.

The music will still be perfectly wonderful

It outlives our letters  simply there against  the thrashes of loneliness  among the check out counters,  wildly spaced  like the words in a...