Designs by Chrysler
And timelessness like
Joni Mitchell
Interrupting sips
From what Alyson didn’t want
Sisters of good friends
Took out their needles
In exchange for
Discarded furniture adorned with
The trusting profiles of
Churchill and Stalin
Under the banner of Time
Mexican families mourned:
The mothers and fathers sat and ate
And the children rode their
Skateboards laughing
The sun was half-way to tomorrow
In a chair I broke under my own weight
I sat ineptly twirling a baton
He told me it was an invention of the French farmers,
A story as half-cooked as the origin of the Bartlett Pear
Life on Riverton is nice
Happiness finds itself here
In the perfection of these people,
My friends,
And the Mexicans next door
