Poetry

I do not remember
How to plant flowers in the garden
How to live
Without secrets
And sing along with the radio

I do not remember
How to not
Advertise my pain

Yet
I dare not forget
If there is to be relief
From this madness.

TODAY
I KILLED A FLY
and wept

       then killed another.

streets twist anew
laundries and car washes
hump what was virgin grass
my once baby city
now plump with middle age
from the fountain of restaurants
a rouged hussy
with wide
wagging hips