Monday, October 25, 2021

Changing Trains






I liked blondes that summer 


“kiss me please” farmers 

hands wrapping my waist in the beer tent 

rolling out the barrel 

one 

    two 

         three 



arms shielding me 

at the top of the Zipper

pump-jacks between rows 

gas flares 

blowing rotten eggs 

across tassels 


closing my eyes 

oil wells rose 

like levitating viaducts 

and I boarded a train 

skimming away 

on elevated rails 



by Halloween 

the polka stopped 

Coors cans rolled 

under our theater seats 

while Jamie Lee Curtis 

screamed

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