fat joke

14 pilgrims
a vietnamese contingent
of real bussed people
rolled off a hill

a real pilgrim in a modern age
a modern age
full of real people
who are born and then don't believe they will die and then die

wearing their own legs for protection
being their own brothers
and blessing themselves like full-grown pilots
i'm a sky and one of them says it like he means it
i'm a sky and i don't need any help anyway and if i did i wouldn't say so

i was born under a full moon and this is my age
i was born to two or three parents and this is my name
i was born so long ago i don't remember and this is my social security number

the one who doesn't believe will be forgiven anyway

hot children go up to their own elbows and this feels good
like a solemn solemn
like a friendly gimmick
like a joke between two people
who don't laugh and don't want to