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The Age of Quantum Physics
Most are
unwilling
to buy underwear at the thrift store.
But what is willingness
when Afghanistan is a spot
on our minds we can’t locate.
I buy mens and womens.
Yesterday at the meat counter
I ordered the roast beef.
It was unbelievable.
Even the butcher’s boy,
whose version of Afghanistan is farther flung—
a black whole, a quark— said chicken?
Like wiping egg off my chin
at a funeral for a worn-out pair of lovers who’d exhausted
at least fifteen vocabularies on their drive through Death Valley,
I had to correct him.
Kick off your converse and swim for your life!
When the inspector comes
don’t tell him his fly’s down.
to buy underwear at the thrift store.
But what is willingness
when Afghanistan is a spot
on our minds we can’t locate.
I buy mens and womens.
Yesterday at the meat counter
I ordered the roast beef.
It was unbelievable.
Even the butcher’s boy,
whose version of Afghanistan is farther flung—
a black whole, a quark— said chicken?
Like wiping egg off my chin
at a funeral for a worn-out pair of lovers who’d exhausted
at least fifteen vocabularies on their drive through Death Valley,
I had to correct him.
Kick off your converse and swim for your life!
When the inspector comes
don’t tell him his fly’s down.
Posted 10/19/13
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