i have decided that  

1

i won’t hide anymore

any feelingsthoughtswishes

somewhere deep

so they might be erased

when my body blues

and my wife incinerates me

and my children scatter

my ashes at aquinnah

after dividing my molars:

two gold crowns.

2

i was a native

american in a past life

and took an arrow in

guts and fell

into prairie wind and

switchgrass.

and i was broken

blues harmonica

busking in the key

of e for empty.

3

we are all

earthlings (so far)

natives from jungles

and fishtank oceans

dividing land

by name and color

and fences

and walls

wondering

how did we end up here?