there's no form of patience that can refrain from paling
and the last leg of winter raised obscenely, like a dog
about to piss
this is what they meant when they said the rats were
drowning and the limp you faked to park there tastes like
sewage, damp, and cyanide
the liver-failure bridge you just had to go and marry
turned out to be more of a mail-order bride, and that's
not even the worst thing on your mind
it's not like tomorrow's waiting for you, a doctor on call
or a safety net to snag the skin of your teeth--not since
the only thing left to fall on became the crunch of bone