Weather it (2018)

  

day before blusterday

up at 7

at work at 9, for 8 hours

working hard,

20 feet up a ladder

under the eaves

over the rose thorns

get on the bus back home

hey, dad! my sweet 16

surprises me

there by Reed College

there where i had the key

to the kingmaker's place

for months and months during that fall

of mothball sequestration

day before hester prynne

hid in the split rock

and came back from 6 years

raised by the Indians

who done in her maw

winners don't get sidetracked

get home with most of paycheck,

storm door blowing

glass shards of sound across the

extinct or dormant volcano

wham

wham

the notes all ignored, the music bad.

working hard at good energy

as hippies say

as parents say

as teachers say, to hustlers cons& chameleons.

finally in my room, my space

slam slam wham

shhh it's "home"

landing her grocery

cans of soup on the counter

like an enraged wide body airplane out of diesel,

bumping down hard

oh me oh my O's

about being at the DMV

"all the dew doh day"

having a hissy fit,

putting all peace on men

on pause, the most minstrel

lost-partum kindness.

Lil' OrFun granny

dressed up for Vegas Warbucks,

her whipped boy

with the fat wallet.

LOSER, "little bitch"

tickles the funny bone just in time

to scum the film off this filthy soup.

thank good nest

thank still water

thank you mom and dad

thank you 3 mountains

we can weather It. 

 

 

2018

SE Portland, Tabor