I got skills, can
genuflect, not here
and haven’t for years,
done that the sign, this
middle morn, people talk,
some unseen someone
ransacks, radio, tape
machine defunct, get
your own google chip
implant, no thanks, no
truant, ground booty
forensic, stipend disposable,
taking prints, (we) leave
them, she won’t allow
it, conflating but maybe
another would serve my
purpose, american, what
it means, really, context
for the dead, been there
before, spilled the wine, I
don’t have none, get on
up then and walk, or
is it run, this is an
order, for now though
it’s the coffee, 3:56
AM on a Sunday, out
of the microwave and
all over the knuckles,
sloshing it, crickets out
side, window wide
open, this is the kitchen
table, cat after, something, look
up and down the street, an
actual hill, no thief
in sight, one day too
late, ransacker sneak,
even the dog slept through it
all, not yet but some
how, an empire implodes,
las palabras de nada aqui, pero
sheer self-assurance, nothing here
but us and the animals