dummy

the Mimes, etc. taught me little for my SATs
but you on the playground/the merry-go-round/
and how it divided you into sectionslike a grapefruit/
yr shoulders and yr tranquility and yr blondness/
(like slices—except that each section was a dutiful child)

difficult
different
remember our breakdown on I-85?

there we were… and I told you
how I felt/ the car knew something
(without actually knowing it):

you asked:
“ache” is to “panegyre”
as what is to heaven?

residual absolution/ is All/ pray(r) in-between/ the hard times
&ChuggaChuggaChuggaChugga
& green and the hood ornament’s plowing ahead

:not silence: on Peachtree
was better than/ being-dead/
(being-the one left)

I lifted you up/ to Sequoia
and from then on
I wanted to fire my mechanic

(throat of the empire)