April 18, 2009

Even Heroines Jot Notes on Napkins

 
I'm going back to Cali.
I'm going back to Rockville.
I'm going back to Bainbridge.
And I'm going back to Nashville.

I'm going back to L.A.
To PA and Del Ray.

I'm going back to Newark,
To New York, to New Hope.

Jersey City, Park City, Slab City,
Salt Lake City, the Ukranian Village and Boy's Town.

I'm five-foot ten and tired.

The professor was afraid all this time travel
Would rot my memory from the inside out
Like the mystical fruit of the Powder Tree.
 

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