Race car driver
aimed at the sky.
Show the video again,
the part where the books
are bones and the whole city
turns into a cemetery.

2.
You can see that too, gazing
through a broken window
lo into an old miner’s shack
and there everything is, tu sais?

3.
Mila found the bones of his mother,
somehow taught how to think,
thinking is praying, isn’t it?
Taming the mind, holding
one thought and being held by it,
what do you find to start you?

4.
Magic has no exceptions,
only excuses, words we didn’t
grasp in the first place
now bite us on the wrist,
the fang of forgetting,
come home to the ruins
that stretch out for miles
in the Pompeii of your mind,
the world fresh and new outside.

7 October 2022