Hold the Phone

Can we just stop a minute and talk

on how much mini cooper
sounds like Winnie Cooper?

how you gravitate toward boys
that look like girls & girls
that look like boys.

On NPR:
A parasite knows it only wants to be inside
the stomach of the cat.
Once eaten by the rodent, the parasite will force the rat to
strange and unforeseen desperate measures;
risk suicide just to get back to the cat.
Rather than fear
the rat will find itself drawn to the feline scent.
For people, it gets a little sensitive.
Infected men are more likely to be aggressive, jealous and
suspicious. They suffer a sixfold increased risk of traffic accidents.
Infected women become more outgoing, show signs of higher intelligence.

31 United States boast Buddhist temples.
We could get a car and drive to them,
take vows of silence and come out clean.
Or I could go alone but it would be a different kind
of vow, all together.

There is a girl at the bar who is telling me the same
parasite makes a woman want to be a cat lady.
I let her keep going; not making sense.
She keeps saying, you see, at some point cats must have eaten us. They
must have just eaten us up. Like it means something.

In Whalan, Minnesota, population 64, they host an Annual
Stand Still parade where spectators walk around the
dormant firetrucks, floats and marching bands.
You know it's over when
they begin to move.

I've been having nightmares.
I am late to work,
I cannot find you,
I am drowning in sand (I suppose the heat gets too high).
Worst of all is the one where my brain is a hotel room jam packed with frivolity.
Real Life knocks on the door and leaves me
because there's just no more room.