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?