Uncle David Has Four Middle Names

if ya can't catch a cheetah, why bother to chase it.

days have a way of fading.
away.
right there and that.
put twenty dollars back.
with a Z, or a V.
suffication.
dreaming.

room service hotdogs.
or thirty-one nectarines.
escape.
find my own way back north.
for the fourth shadow.
the wind speaks Spanish.
with ceramic tongues.

my maple again.
sweet bean.
show me what you've seen.
every little word. loud.
strange prayers for Lou Reed.
prison. swallowed by the hearth.
your mum's brother.

the family is forgotten.
photographs. proof. only.
cigarettes existed to burn and fray the edges.
learn to swim or learn to drown.
good muse gone.
clever and creative.
dogwood doldrums, earned through moments.