though there are so many black holes the jcpenny and the back of kohls where rot a lot of things i cant say oh nicole your trailer park can console any darkness spooled around the ground floor patio where the tomatoes once cooled in your young night dont let it dim your eyesight of the divorced split level mansion the exit of forced expansion now miniatured the furniture sharpens its imprints into the carpeting since weve dozed off and napped is it preserved and plastic wrapped little caesars birthday night our dads have seizures and they bite their tongues before the rug burned floor where we learned how to die where we wrestled laughed and tickle tortured till our love made us cry so jacqueline when are you coming home your organ bench is warped and wrenched and so many nights i see your bedroom window lights i guess the widowed ghost ignites because they left that house in union lake and i had my first communion cake in a weight room clubhouse of their apartment where the freeway air of 275 rushed when they were still alive so i extend my endless thanks grandchild pranks and oxygen tanks hissing to the daytime tv where you and me crossword puzzles i was ten with some promotional pen and now the doorknobs and window panes are dripping wet the dead night is pressing tight against the glowing light of a heated home tonight the time machines of television sets oh mary let me see that lotto heart let the auto parts break down and die wheel around the squealing sound of a shopping cart smile down the grocery aisle till you softly hang your head and start to cry for a while in waterford the discount stores sneezing in the freezing rain pours sunken women drunken on some far fetched wrenching dreams drenched in starter jackets of their favorite first grade teams though there are so many black holes jacquelines and orphan nicoles i know they all know love all the girls in their smooth teeth jot death dates on their loose leaf i dont know if ill ever die