stadium seating graveyard
- in honor of alice's devotion to gertrude

burned sage letters
ink stain
junkie fingers

it is death
making me chill here
not the bony hand
no scythe or ominous
but an escape of life - the heat
having no containment - the chemical
liquid soul
without a bottle
evaporating from the spilled ground
into molecular oblivion

better

pick up a pen         
travel thru