9:55 am

Leave it alone
she said
before proceeding to recite the
vowels of the alphabet (in order of importance).

They stood there with their
3-tipped hats
and surveyed the expanse.

An endless-seeming apocalypse
of green trees,
old growth,
fuzzy slippers,
warmth.

In the midst of all this
the girl with dizzy eyes
began to recite her ode to finality.

And we shifted the coconuts, while
sitting on our deckchairs.

8/2/2011