Maybe
by John McKernan

 

Maybe Orpheus carry you across River Lethe piggy back

 

Maybe he take knife out of your skull

 

Maybe you find new name in bowl of alphabet soup

 

Maybe you be Designated Dier

 

Maybe someone use rain water to rewrite your Death Certificate

 

Maybe you change name to Charles Manson or Charles Darwin or Charlemagne

 

Maybe you learn to sleepwalk backwards

 

Maybe you design a new alphabet full of silent letters

 

Maybe dust be powdered gold

 

Maybe you run out of money

 

Maybe the sheet of paper is not truly blank

 

Maybe  resistance to change is a new species of hope

 

Maybe it wasn’t light that washed the darkness away but desire

 

Maybe Desiree is another drug to kill feeling

 

Maybe Yesterday was not there at all

 

Maybe  You keep saying   Maybe   Maybe   As if it were a dishrag

 

Maybe love makes sex better

 

Maybe sex makes love better

 

Maybe you need to look at a decaying mansion for two months

 

Maybe you are confused about buying Lottery Tickets

 

Maybe every number in the universe is contained within the number 1

 

Maybe you need a pet crow that lives on cottage cheese and low-fat milk

 

Maybe you and Prometheus need a liver transplant   




Eleanor Bennett
 

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