(Written While Standing Behind The Counter At Hess At Some Point In The Evening Of May The Second 2008 Northampton, Massachusetts)

vehicle vitamins
eaten drinken taken back
for store credit
for a sore bed wet
for a blank stare
tax hole
where golf balls
and conference halls
bask saintly
in saliva

scattered like ashes
survivors ashes
buried deep
in nevermind
and opened fast
on nevermind
return to sender
just awful
awe full
awesome
the way we pretend
that the end
is a long way off

AND THERE IS STILL TIME