I COULDN’T DIE IF I WANTED TO
From the 2016 Collection "Nickels and Dimes"
Nirvana is acquittal,
wearing sweatpants in an empty courtroom,
drunk,
singing songs about the Southland.
God has fashioned my heart like a dune,
made my blood a merry-go-round.
He gave me endless raucous knee-slapping laughter,
to the point of crying until
my friends’ faces are blurred.
I couldn’t die if I wanted to!