& the sun rose on Nobody’s
chosen coastline,
fertile fields full of
daffodils all ahalo, their glow
the last gleam we see
before his rocket’s glare reddens
& flares. This has been Nobody’s
adventure in miniature:
fled the rigors & found his tribe
only to feel the pull toward
pride or is this just the story
of another boring life?
Goodbye,
Laethwyn, back to Ivy Town,
Nobody must go, the body
enormous & failing,
the paint peeling--a cat under the porch
yellow-eyed & losing its fur:
Nobody's come home
to die.
Open arms in a gesture
of invisible cherry-stemmed bomb:
do the Batusi one last time
to a chorus of mumbles.
Foot upon the ceremonial hoe,
this banana peel is my body,
the bad cholesterol my blood.
The corpus laid out
upon the hood of a 2007
Subaru--where he knew he'd end
eventually. The scaly, four-fingered
hands swivel glue sticks,
affix the photos, those couple
reviews, all the movie receipts,
all the invoices, all the summonses
& resumés, gingerly
closing the hand-bound tome, emblazoned
by brown crayon:
NOBODY REMEMBERED.
enormous & failing,
the paint peeling--a cat under the porch
yellow-eyed & losing its fur:
Nobody's come home
to die.
Open arms in a gesture
of invisible cherry-stemmed bomb:
do the Batusi one last time
to a chorus of mumbles.
Foot upon the ceremonial hoe,
this banana peel is my body,
the bad cholesterol my blood.
The corpus laid out
upon the hood of a 2007
Subaru--where he knew he'd end
eventually. The scaly, four-fingered
hands swivel glue sticks,
affix the photos, those couple
reviews, all the movie receipts,
all the invoices, all the summonses
& resumés, gingerly
closing the hand-bound tome, emblazoned
by brown crayon:
NOBODY REMEMBERED.
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