How to Talk to Your Giraffe About Gun Safety

avoiding recognition,
I am a simple gangster
in a Yankees hat.

watching Arrested Development
on Hulu
after getting handjobs
from a fugitive.

Frankie Bastille's ghost was around
earlier
in the TV and in the chicken fingers
while
American Telephone & Telegraph
wasn't working in dashes.

the night left hard
and the dreams came in lions' roars
where wallpaper once
called home.

I never used to be afraid of heights.