Different Vacations

2.14.20

And it’s like I’ve committed here
on this bleached beach
at this bleached table
to use my time in a certain way

No, it’s not like – it is

I have used my time here
for better or for
worse

What might I do
when I come to
when I come to

And you’ve found a dead bird
with collar and tag
And in you is stirred
a proxy bought loss
for this winged thing
could be from no place you have heard
from some place absurd

A dog, you’d’ve preferred