Sunday, August 15, 2010

Things That End

Things that end:

hiccups (usually).
heartbeats, heatstroke, senate
elections. Bus route 7 in Saigon,
the road less traveled, ink pens,
fantasy, flexibility, being on fire.
Constipation (usually).

The Roman Empire, dinner yesterday,
contact with my 8th grade
science teacher. The sky
the way our eyes can see it.
Haircuts. Spelling bees. Cricket matches.
The sky the way our eyes cannot.

Ceilings, balconies and being
tucked in. Newsweek subscriptions,
egg whites only, teeth, law
and order, dry sponge, wet clay.

and Christmas mornings
my Christmas mornings
Hamlet's life, Pete's dragon,
all blood and breasts and
berlin walls.

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