![]() ![]() Occasional anguish but nothing compared to what I will reach when I peak & P is for Preakness. N is for next: next wife, next car, next life I would spend the bones in this flesh one by one to touch. L is for lean in the cups of boys in white shirts billowing free in Mississippi towns so small, they are visible only when passing through them, like death. I is for individual drive trumps all concern when it comes to this business of living joyously at the edge of wit, watching half a world drown with your hands tied. Fears we cathect onto men holding best intentions close to the chest as one might guilt or guns & of course G is for guns, G-men, guillotines draped in flame we dream any hellscape holds if it’s up to snuff. E is for elephants & their semblances, every political animal laboring under some less‑than‑human name. Cocaine, Coca-Cola, the cacophonous wail of drones filling air with wartime. B is for blacks belting blues before burial, the blood they let to give the flag its glimmer. ![]()
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