Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 2022

heading to Atlanta
on a jet plane
to frolic in Chastain,
long where rich folk
drown their pain. 

going awol 
at Saturday light,
to do nothing
and do it right,
just a flight and two midnights.

abandoned in mansion,
un-unfinished,
just a man standing
like a stanchion,
lost and found among Atlantans. 

I want the traffic
and I want the fog,
who knows,
maybe I will even
go for a jog. 

O Silent God,
O W. E. B. Du Bois,
find me, listen me,
beseech thee to be done
and just have some wayward fun. 

re-vampiring 
my processes,
I will shortly obsess
a confession of duress
and just rest my chest. 

another litany
has swollen me,
beyond recognition,
beyond belief,
but not beyond repair.