25 october

cool night parking lot crisp like sub lettuce slices of cheese waiting for tomato and ready for oil and vinegar stepping across darkness later than evening should be long past real dinner sleepwishing dreams of the sandwich embrace whitebread rollup these are the perfect images palumbo subs mechanicsburg pennsylvania imagine and remember the tender balance let me ask another question the lesson here to learn is to earn that time and keep it in a locked pocket to have and to hold to say yes but also know that no is a word - absurd but those days place trays full of orders in short form - the norms and their ideals squealing off the exit ramps into tramped-down piles the to-do lists to-done unstrung and while the subject is collecting itself i'd toast the health of any reader - the cooler side of the pillow, the fever that fades when the sun comes up