A live oak, grey suit not moving, “He’s dead,” The strings inside him broke. She loved mysteries so That she became one. - Tonight, darling, to right Wrongs and wrong rights with zero dollars and zero cents and bat mitzvah money. - Orlando was pretty well lit, A LEGO set sunk, a paper town That’s uglier close up – dementia, Paper-thin, paper-frail fox-trot All the way around to slow dance And finally, “I. Will. Miss. Hanging. Out. With. You.” - Highlighting “Song of Myself” opens the door of your mind, Not poetry, not metaphor, clues the size of my thumbnail Couldn’t help but smile half straight edges and half ripped Paper towns, you will come back. - If only I walked like I knew how to kiss Guthrie sang to Whitman as Walt read of doors And maps of mini-malls leading To graffiti messages and skipping graduation to drive, “Though life can ****, it always beats the alternative.”