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“South Bend, Pt. 2”

My former boss

At the bar

Unfriended me on Facebook

And won’t let me follow her on

Instagram.

.

The last time I talked to her,

She gave me a hug.

.

I’m not sure why,

But her bust has like doubled in size

Since I worked for her six years ago.

.

And now I’m left to think of this video

Of her twirling these flags

In a bathing suit on the beach,

Twisting,

Bending and swaying,

.

With various heavenly

Swatches of copper flesh

Wiggling with inertiatic zeal

Revealing themselves

Scantily or partially, at

Variant times.

.

And now I walk

Down a block downtown

And there’s this dusty feel to

Everything,

.

But the women all seem to have

.

Huger breasts than ever,

Hence, hopefully,

Justifying my nervy quest to

Observe my former boss on social media.

.

I think back to the days of rock concerts,

At the Rum Village Inn, at the Anchor Inn,

And the Wander Inn

(Yes, all these bars are really called “inns”),

.

Of the phenomenon of

Observing music

And really sinking into it,

Like

.

Incurring that phenomenon

Where it feels like you’re travelling spatially,

Listening to gripping music,

And where it hurts a little bit.

.

I think of Wilco

.

And I think of Sharon Van Etten.

.

When I go to this one part of town

I think of Pearl Jam and

I administer my pedestrian facial expression

At any number of punctiliously rendered

Locales around town,

.

All the while,

Carrying what I perceive as

My own sense of meaning,

Inside my head.

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