04/15/20 Let’s Talk About Taxes…
Let’s assume everything is dangerous:
words on a chalkboard
from my ear
to your mouth;
an impersonal hello
taken as a signature in parting;
someone else’s carelessness
with your life;
a book I burned on Christmas
as an offering
to the recent
most popular
God,
who stares at us from a distance
as we conjure reasons
for a most ordinary of magic
tricks –
a lottery.
Where were you when the music
stopped,
and you learned that even your eyes
were an accident,
on the other side of which
is the dark?
Where were you
when you had to choose between love
and surrender?
Was your birth order
just too precious
to receive
the gift
of sight?