[Hermes takes the body / of a young frat boy]
Jacob Carl
Hermes takes the body
of a young frat boy
to gift me
(for protection)
Moly
the root was black
the flower white
as Milk
i thank the god
he places a single pill
upon my palm–
How short my life line runs!
and i slip into a stall
where I slip it down my throat
where I stumble / catch to fall
just a common slip of tongue.
I awake in the morn – to find
my stolen fire extinguisher
on its side
and on the very bottom
of the base
9 lines of saddest verse
in lower case:
i have never met anybody
swift enuf to satisfy
me. nor
calm enuf for true
tranquility.
where are the women of the
deep–
that can coax me out of
sleep–