Sendoff

4 May 2009

nervous customers in lines of two
  make every check out girl offer
a downturn. remember nothing
 this sequence a photographic_
  is losing all its frames, a ceiling_
another nervous face a brick of plastic
face of berlin drum face of berlin

through the tile floor, pivot and his
  displaced stone came up. look at
 the cement grain. where are the pipes?
you can’t see the pipes. you might hear
 the pipes_ how’d we get up on the chrysler
 building? how’d we get this bike up here?
  how’d we get our hands untied?

dead man’s curve ahead, all children
  know it’s time_ dogs to die.