Away...

If feels nice to get away from the same old cares.  This one is a vacation for me.  Nothing serious.  Nothing even remotely [word].  My brain is broken.

12.13  For Gloria

You tell me to get up

and also to make it happen

but without the sole-shaped cut outs

I haven’t a place to start

yet you moves on

imploring me to get up

to move oh a oh

and to stand from my spot

it will not happen, señorita,

the involuntary rise from chair

to miraculous movement

orchestrated by your words

like possession

like the rhythm, in fact,

did what it threatened to do

and made it happen

it’s not that I don’t appreciate

the encouragement and suggestion

but lady, today is a day for sitting

and you are not helping the cause.

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