AND YOU you

(subterranean animal)

THOUGHT IT COULDN'T you

(leaving behind wet, slurpy footsteps on the velvet carpet staircase)

GET TO you

(staircase-a-lookin' fuzzy, quite different, especially in this angle of dustiest sunlight)

BETTER you

(better you, better you, better you)


Quarrelsome subterranean animals bettering you,

tell me about it, huh.

I keeps on stepping on ma coat, hoisting up the stairs

on 59th street, where so many shoes have left their invisible takings

breathtaking everything is so take your cameras out, good, now

now is the right time, to better you, to you better.

You are so soft
so feathery

so distant

so good

can I touch you for just a bit of a second?

and you go off, to your extremely trivial-but-important daily issues

addressing them as if you would a snowstorm

oh Dear