from The Unfollowing: 20

Wake up, get married, be born First A and B pick up the trunk, then C relieves A and A wanders off, then D takes B’s end and B goes in search of A, but A is nowhere to be found, and C and D make off with the trunk Long are the lazy man’s laws, the kittens are in the kitchen, the child’s chin aids pronunciation Maybe I’m dreaming I’m naked except for a long black t-shirt I’m dreaming Bring on the aspirin and bread, the vitamin C and gin We have fourteen names for blue and that doesn’t even count “meridian” Diderot, Audrey Hepburn, Hegel, Charles Dickens, and Gertrude Stein Shadow bird shouting White coral fencing The butcher on Sunday, Pablo Ruiz, lives south of here (in F___) and has five kids—how full of vitality he is She leaves us behind in the interstices of competence Origami, irreverence, sand on the wing of an ibis She drops a bucket down a thick well, she whacks a golfball longer than a marble Rude and shoed, should and lead, reed