Five Poems

Intellectual Checkmate

We’ll have fun
We’ll have chicken pot fun
It will be Bob Marley influenced
It will all be very Bob Marley influenced

Horses

young and full of pasta
in the middle of the night
your GMC Envoy
Iike a horse outside
takes you home in the morning
through the rain without thunder
through the rain without lightning
through the rain without breakfast
through the rain without buttons
through the rain without horses
just carpools to school
trafficking children
in a technical way

at Guitar Center

the amount of staff around the registers felt
dreamlike
nothing seemed final
I had to ask if I was good to go
I felt peculiarly old
when I said "take care"
a bearded man was checking me out
in a non-sexual way
I think I know him from a dream
or have seen him in Hawaii

ate

ate just the
right amount of peanuts
right amount of peanuts

Tissues

I’ve received gifts I’ve never used
a dictation software my cousin swore by
dragon or something

I’ve farted so loud the neighbor’s dog barked
an indoor dog
cinnamon maybe

how can a word like general mean
almost nothing
and be a dignified title at the same time

jumping in the pool with tissues in my pocket
two fish make a yin yang I don’t get to see