Bowl of Light - The Argotist Online

your family and all you hold
in your front pocket aside
from the lint that glues the universe
or this one, hard as a forgotten ticket
pasted to your forehead
no one to see yet
1) where's the dope
2) where's the money
3) who are you calling Rooney,
cadet
this venture has about a point
one ten chance of fuck-up-itude and that
is why you would have made an eager career
from cartwheels and earwax
could you have held them close
the way your dresser holds fifty-year
gusts and two small nails that belong
it's not my coffin.