—I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHERE HERE IS  

fall

since you’ve

been gone

time resorts

to deprivation

and the screens

won’t stop

screaming

each like a

colicky child

heard from

a muddled distance

spewing grubby

nonsense and

bald silence

there’s acid rain

filling in

the chasms

hot blades on

every surface

the rearview

deluded and

denuded

one room

saying yes

another asking

do you

even know

while i

filch the

final card

from the

tarot deck

and fall

in line