No Thanks
After S.S, Mazino sort of
listen
every day the world is making its meager
mea culpas for Easter peeps arranged on dollar store plates
at dinner parties invisible fences the dogs run past
for bleach-stained laundry fresh from the laundromat
fallen palm leaves whose barbs bloody your fingers
when you sweep them from the road someone somewhere
is repenting listen it is every living creature’s right
to refuse the apology no thanks to the vendor
offering his rhinestone watch before the truck
can tow his trailer from the driveway I’m good
to the postwoman offering whiskey and who knows
where it could lead after misplacing another package yes
god it is good to decline the world its small expressions
of remorse the landlord’s handshake as black mold erupts
from the ceiling the gift basket and wax-armored cheese
after another job falls through the apology you once imagined
from the boy you last remember as a shape
standing over you naked the shape of all intent
as you have come to understand it a volition of dark
holy as any power you wrestle with and lose to can be
holy your neck craning up intending you swear
to reject that single word its rain
sorry
2020-05-01 18:10:26
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