Friday Night

(i)

 

Instead of renting some worthwhile tool;

drill

floor sander

documentary on global peace activism,

it's the latest in alien invasion

she enjoys tonight

a complete lack of personal responsibility

one hundred and eleven minutes

hatching

escape

from office towers,

from bodies of what used to be

office workers, suburban basements,

children, disillusioned soldiers.

 

She detaches, floats up

suspended in beautiful limbo

strung from the balloons of her eyes

she is beyond gravity

held,

being held,

holding on

as her own couch sags

with the history of human potential:

one succulent earth

smorgasbord.