grass and trees

luc simonic
now that i have relieved myself,
onto my hand, onto lips and mouths,

spilling mission critical data out
my hard drive and onto my flash drive

sticking it into the lettuce wrap. the
spicy lettuce wrap. the soothing lettuce

wrap, not sure if any of this will ever be
worth more than the plastic it's in, so

pardon my french. pardon my spanish.
pardon my japanese, my long distance

pleasure pie and preeminence and

everything else whose mist creates

olfactory pleasure & guilt like
the day your grandmother was buried

your cousin you have not seen for
16 years. the cousin whose one

avoided eyeshot finally greets yours
in similar fashion and all the shadows of

death in every corner of your sanctuary
are pale angels in comparison to the smell

of one summer evening so many years
ago in the middle of nowhere surrounded

by grass and trees.