1.
The actress came over.

2.
She had that look in her eye.

3.
My EIDETIC dreams were glossing me
over. I felt DEADPAN. As if actually
visible. I turned to face the sun. 

4.
I politely asked the actress if I could
have a cigarette. 

5.
The SOFT actress had WARM skin. Her
RED lips opened and closed at random.
Ad nauseam. 

6.
I couldn’t find a way to make it look
GOOD. Holding fast. Moving my chest
against the weight of the world.

7.
We use these devices to make ourselves
look BETTER. We could do nothing
together in this FAILING decade.

8.
Just kidding. When this is over I want
another one. 

9.
Somewhere nearby, the actress sat under
art deco. Leaning her heat into the nape
of the couch. Nursing BLACK lungs and
murmuring. We were onboard, in the
heat of the moment. We were aligned
with the right party. 

10.
At the end of it I dropped into COLD,
DARK sleep. 

11.
American corporations have started
openly murdering their enemies. 

12.
Her dad has several bikes, it was his
retirement obsession. I grew up playing
soccer all the time. 

13.
That year the soil blackened. Crop yields
declined. I think about it when I close
my eyes. 

14.
The actress turned to face me and said
this: you look just like a BROWN bird.
You have PERFECT eyes. She used a
cycle of descriptors in IRREGULAR
order. 

15.
She said this to me SOFTLY, as she
coughed up a DARK fleck of something. 

16.
Why are we so SAD to be alone? Isn’t
there something for us to spit at
together? She clicked her heels as she
ran away.

17.
I became ENMESHED in my creative
work. Soul kissed by a time demon. I
carved a face into the ground and walked
backwards to look at it. 

18.
You need to Americanize your life. All
will be revealed when you stop sweating
the SMALL stuff. WHITE kittens,
LIGHT BLUE bedroom walls, posed
against them at an AWKWARD angle.

19.
I needed to get a little more air. Two
airplanes crossed in the night sky. We all
have our vices. 

20.
You asked for more time against me.
You ashed into your BLACK coffee and
drank it. 

21.
There was a BITCHIN’ electricity in the
air on our walk over. It was the
HOTTEST day of an ENDLESS
summer. 

22.
My driver was too CAREFUL. My lover
was too RETICENT. We can fix it in
post. 

23.
The actress kneeled onstage. She turned
into something GREATER than herself.

24.
There was something in her spirit that
moved me. It ruffled my feathers. It
pinned me to the chair.

25.
I have something to prove. She said
come over, come over, she smiled at you,
boy. 

26.
The poems weren’t working and I lost a
lot of time.

27.
I need you to stay right there.