it all starts here today
and will take a long time
there are so many many of us
lots upon lots
though early the lanes are clear
he sees no one
only the ice and frost
goes tentatively in the wrong boots
imagines the slipping so moves
the phone to a front pocket in
case
his imagination runs riot
as before and remembering
not to use the first word
that comes in his mind
or too many recognizable
cliches james
so we talked about dna alterations
those tracking devices they say are
inserted
and laughed over the silliness
of our conversation and then
i drew the tidy face and then
the scaffolders came