Heart Two Suit Sizes Small
The lunch truck lost a Michelin star,
a lunch a lunch wagon in the open,
no cover from rain over vacant men
holding rice and Mexican sandwiches,
beyond a kerosene lamp a slow dark
begins with an idle purpose.
Never Care For What They Say,
Never Care for Games They Play.*
Varnished dogs for sale on a shelf,
plaster mother of Jesus statues, too.
Broken clock with only one hand
like a soldier wounded in his sex.
Dark just beyond the kerosene lamp,
automobiles on blocks with no tires,
cracked bench with only one arm rest.
A rooming house colored heavy cream.
Your legs under a metal moon, rouged
lips holding a cheroot, full oval mouth
like a winning peach at a garden show.
I want a change of address.
To join the owls and woodcocks bunched
and calling from sea green avocado trees.
I want a fresh start, an open heart,
new clothes, time for us without pressure,
the burden of old grievances and harms.
I want you back. The nudge of a far away
whistle like a woman whispering a secret,
the dry water fountain, a broken pedal.
The moon shinning as though like me
it has no real work. And work?
17 years on a production line, then layoff.
Better luck next time.
*Metallica
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