apples, body wash, & cat litter on the credit card

 

bc we’re out and I don’t get paid

 

until Friday, the check landing too late to keep

 

this thing going, direct deposit, elephant

 

in the room of our love. Eugen

 

Bavčar made a photograph once of hands

 

blurred by long exposure over a piano,

 

hovering the way god does

 

over a religionless life

 

if it started in the church. St. Jerome healed the lion,

 

translated the Bible, Kiselewski sculpted him

 

in limestone although he often appears

 

mired in books or in the desert, which settings are

 

not altogether that different. You

 

know me, I am always looking

 

to the lives of the saints for proper

 

guidance on how to live my life quietly,

 

pull no fire alarms, respect

 

the sanctity of

 

the phone note, only make a new one when I’m

 

sure I have something

 

very important to record.

 

wastewater Covid levels are the highest they’ve been in a while

 

except our instinct for self-preservation has gone to hell.

 

why?

 

Jerome was also often shown with an owl, symbolizing wisdom, and/or the trumpet of final judgment.