to be out here
loving the dog and possum equal
squinting down at the spermy tadpoles
curious as hell how they become spring peepers
there is so much still left to spread
on all these different types of bread
who cares if it makes us fat look at Fiona in the zoo
up 71 we were worried she wasn’t getting fat quick enough
and now we get to see pictures from her birthday party
we are not clinging to scraps
joy pays dividends
joy puts out an earnings call
you can plug some clock parts into a potato
and somehow THAT works
so no each day is no more or less important than clothes
sometimes you take them off slow
and others you cant hardly stop to breathe
pulling pants over boots laughing into the bed
we have to make peace with the fact
that we are the only animal
that can be driven from the herd
for saying something mean we get to care about each other
we get to put our faces in each-others armpits sometimes
and honestly that is sort of the best thing
we can go to the store and buy all the different types of pickles
for a taste test and never agree on which we like best
I know you knew this that one doesn’t have to squint
through suffering to see beauty the first cartoon
was a mouse piloting a steamboat all of Hopper’s women
were so lonely because he liked to paint lonely things
just like I like to go see the baseball game
and fill up on hot dogs and beer
you find out if a battery still has juice
by dropping it to see if it bounces
but we used to only know to put our tongue
to the plus sides nipple and squirm
to see if we’d get a little shock
sometimes you run your hand over a plant
and nothing happens
and sometimes all the leaves drop off
when i was growing tomatoes I called my mom to say
mom do i need to cut all these little flowers off of this tomato plant
and she wasn’t sad I was dumb no one tells you the fruit is the flower
until someone tells you the fruit is the flower
and even then like me
you might still look it up
down in coney island my girlfriend pulled me away
from the loud and hilarious arcades
to show me that you could drop a quarter in a slot
and make a whole mock coney island
come springing back to life
and right next to it another quarter
would make a woman and two cats dance
but one cat was broken
and won’t I remember that forever
and doesn’t that make the broken cat so much better
sometimes I sit all day at the computer
and all I have to show for it is this
a couple of lines that say I like walk
where we’re headed if that’s an option
and boy I really like
to be kissed