the come down

The people that stay that say they’re concerned
about homelessness homelessness

we watch her

feel hers

in her apartment 

the colonial

party
we stay honest
it's a rush
it was
her car with the hatchet 
her son her son’s dis ability
his service

stuck in a double-parked ditch 

at mass ditched
the service
for the chaos

of safety
a youth den a lock-in
3 am to Walmart 

the pale concrete drive that cut a pond

I was that bag

the cat’s bed
that walk
shook the drive
the horse fence 

horse head letter opener

that’s our
future blue
trailer
stunning in the names 

that keep narrowing 

like the day sticks

to the daughter

you can beat it
just like that

I grabbed your hand

like I was going to set it down

come down to me

what was I thinking earlier 

about those flashes
on the darker plastics 

my seeing things

just got into it
the ever funeral
pressed upon
ran up the bill
shorthanded

a drink called sermon

she rolled it
kept living where

she wasn't
and didn't have to feed

the cat anymore

everybody’s calling everything juice

all friends from the past lightly
curl around the town this 

comes down to this