Tina Turner Declined to Comment
Disliking a band
I used to really like
is reassuring in the way
a seagull is
to the headlong kid who knows
it will always at last
ascend
Or like feeling
your age, as in,
I'm not judging myself. I'm serious
about ordering this coffee.
Do commuter
rail commuters feel
their briefcases in their sleep?
Do I have all the diseases
I'll ever have already?
To nidificate
is to find the square
root of the space
where you are.
I like loving
the same bands
I loved when I was young
because there is no
zeitgeist, indeed
no man can surpass
his own time,
for the spirit
of his time is
also his own spirit,
but his own time
is so much longer
and smaller
than he thinks.
The radio was asking
What’s Love Got
To Do With It as
I almost flattened
a woodchuck
on the highway
and that was just
the scariest thing
that happened yesterday.
