TellingWe push and lift up the stairs one flight then pivot and up the next my brother in front unseen behind sofa says go my mother said He hasn't even told your father telling me how he is breaking things off with Susan A double move one truck for the day futon stereo big screen TV back to Mom's from his new house old sofa out to my apartment we talk car bills cousins' doings plans for Mom's birthday his music on the U-Haul radio Don't let him know I told you I greedy nonetheless to hear sofa upended angled fast in a doorway I lift it into him he bears his end up in retreat overhead and we progress we joke furnished stairwells look up through concrete steps iron rails close in a turn I plot approaches |
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Copyright © 1996 Forward to Letters to the Zone Back to Back Drop Comix No. 7 Path of Least Resistance Cover of Episode 8 Enterzone |
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