SANDBOX MINUS JOHN
DILLINGER EQUALS WHAT?
Often I return to the cover of Tr
took the baby and went down there
watering the cover with big revolv

Oh, Marcia,
I want your long blonde beauty
to be taught in high school,
so kids will learn that God
lives like music in the skin

We stopped at perfect days
and got out of the car.
The wind glanced at her hair.
It was as simple as that.
I turned to say something—

Hinged to forgetfulness
like a door,
she slowly closed out of
sight,
and she was the woman I loved,

I feel horrible. She doesn’t
love me and I wander around
like a sewing machine
that’s just finished sewing
a turd to a garbage can lid.

Sometimes life is merely a matter
affords. I once read something abo
it stimulates all the organs.
I thought at first this was a stra
as time goes by I have found out t

Worsewick Hot Springs was nothing
boards across the creek. That was
The boards dammed up the creek eno
bathtub there, and the creek flowe
invited like a postcard to the oce

It seemed
like years
before
I picked
a bouquet

With the rain falling
surgically against the roof,
I ate a dish of ice cream
that looked like Kafka’s hat.

Thinking hard about you
I got on the bus
and paid 30 cents car fare
and asked the driver for two trans
before discovering