revenue

delia tratorria
Polyester,
molten lava;
you sink down
four inches into dinnertime,
making circles out of windmills
and soil where blisters once were.
You’d better mark the sky wild magenta,
because the clumsy stratosphere breaks like a tooth,
coils hollow like a carpenter’s hand that lost its stroke.
These are the lies you told yourself instead of dreaming.
Leisure suits manufacture and yield less restraint than all
the fires shrinking for lack of proper nutrition.
You are only as robust as oxygen
that chooses to feed you asphalt
when it could have amnesia,
leave the world deflated
and your hands
to hold
copper.