THE LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE


You can only see it at night, the security light
on the side of the building across the street
trying to come on, flickering, staying on
for a while, going out, flickering

and don't you, don't I, have better things to do

Come this way, come on
this is not a code
even if it were it would not be
ours to decipher

Turning this over in my hand I see
miles of my own making, holes without
socks, I'm just happy

to be here, to read and be seen, though often confused

by my own expectations, I'm likely to
fizzle out on my bed before
morning beneath

calves of a
celebrity-look-alike daydream