Fastened to the Carves of the Animal

Its hand came out and came to a point
and pointed to the east and they all knew

they had come to the right place.


House and Guard Dog Today says look
for a live mattress bomb and now is the time

not after you insert your IED.


Or after all three of you come and come
to a point and point to the east and take time

out of each day between this and being a think tank.


No Quarter Quarterly asked for a quote from Roger
and got his name and no serial number at which

point they knew they had had a hand in something.


The one could have grown as big as the other had.
Next to Brad she looks like a different brand of thanks

not aware that it might be Mr. Also Soulless on the horn.


Since this morning the cell phones have not been kept
above the sight lines from that opposing rooftop.

Their concern is the chance someone might be there.


The food of life is small and fits in a jacket by Gwen Stefani.
Also not allowed above ground is that little stain proof edition

on how to say the word for “don’t do a thing or the kid is gone”.


Move in waves of one toward that second darkened doorway
where something just moved then withdrew.

They’ve often been told that following a city into itself is a snap.


He can see that this land can’t see itself as he does.
That if you take your feet and put them right on that

page you’ll mark your place in the new history of the fig tree.


Someone is whistling Git Along Little Doggies unseen.
Might be more help than they need to end a note

on how to tell the head from the remnants of the tin can.


He has a very large home and it feels like it’s filled with all
the time he’ll need. He makes a magnetic sentence on the freezer

“meet the new father we told you would let the sea back in.”


Only it almost never happens before dusk.
They took most of them below and the ones who were large

they tied to a Dirt Devil that looked like a land mine on a timer.


If you’ve made love five different ways and none made you come
or were the answer to the thought problem about the maze

you might need an extra hour on the room rate.


Nobody likes to play second fizzle and very few play it well.
Did you come again when you saw that spent shell there

on the sill overlooking the ceremonial cactus gardens?


Some like to be second in some entryways.
Again the sea when it comes near the room door

seems different here than it sounds or smells at home.


Different in a way that can’t be written.
The city has ways that it hasn’t used since the end of the last

big run through this acid sprinkler toy.


Yippy Ti Yi Yo Git Along Little Doggies it’s your misfortune
that the change we made was the change you didn’t want for

after this city has become the show.


Yippy Ti Yi Yo Git Along Little Doggies you know that you aren’t
who you think at all. You think several things that are parts of a story

but the part that’s most often the best of them is never left whole.


They dressed and left satisfied but never found a school of thought
that addressed the things people cried over in the streets below.

The short one had his years in and was days from his pension.


Yippy Ti Yi Yo Git Along Little Nonesuch you are a picture of something
other than a head. A part of a body brought in before my own at dusk and

you know that Wyoming will be your new home.