Autumnal leaf air, with the historical cut of princetonian guile I walk toward the dull exonerated street she looks heavenward; asks for a cigarillo tahiti bean we never questioned our being, we just floated and the capsicum katana slicing our corneas into julienne, I tell her I can't, I quit, never knowing quite what to do smoking in june outside a wedding with the boys she cuts me off, fast it's back to thinking of melting flower pots and broiled confectioner's sugar in my tiptoe mind- my toes are flat on the ground I walk with a gait, lifting my heels as if i myself seemed an aristocratic soul I look up she has walked away toward the candy store to buy licorice