The daily patdown . . . a costume change
with earbuds, boomboxes tagged and repurposed . . .
Nymphets frolic in the park's pool . . .
Investigative journalists look on for miscues . . .
At Stewart's a septuagenarian, commenting
on your aesthetics, asks about online courses . . .
a cosmic unraveling, harkening back
to that winter afternoon at the manhole
when filled with footnotes
you opted out with a trustee . . .
After shedding his false-face he began pacing
the air . . . you went off-script stammering
eulogies to snowstorms, making an hallucinatory exit
while morphing into a looking glass with fruits
far off and geometric . . .
