I spotted these floating prayers in the territory of headlines blind and quick and imbecilic and sometimes even a chipper word like zoom or lurch we blurted our desires there and with nothing left to do but become them the water is very busy the ice age is really sending Radiohead is really numbing my patience while l get these braids Sunny is really deep in the Rainbow Trout at the sizzler buffet humming the happiest version of I’ll wait for you and next I’m going to comb the Delta for anyone with no last name
Not that I had fixed my mouth to say his fix in oil
Not that the owl was any more of a totem than both Reggies
Not that I had chosen one