20090812

Illinois

Come over; eat cereal with me.
I want to be poor
with you.

But then I don't. I don't
want what my parents had,
their food stamps and their love.

This morning
two slugs drug across my porch,
one half on the back of the other.

I sizzled them with salt, what else
was there to do?
It is a fool's thing to die alone.