LATE AUGUST, FRIDAY

 

LATE AUGUST, FRIDAY

Waking in bed counting days

Remember to pee in empty lemonade jar

Pour the urine into compost

adding acid to compliment coffee grounds

extracting the last heat of summer

Now you can get on your bicycle

and pedal one time

around the development

Karen will join you

on the porch for coffee

when you return

Last night children

taught the nation

how to pronounce Kamala’s name

The child on the right

(watching tv in the living room) says,

Comma, like the punctuation mark,

and the child on the left, says,

Sing it, la,

and then, the two combining

their parts in unison, say,

Follow along (We are the world)

Kamala, Kamala

Karen’s had her Pacemaker 105 days

Her electric heart beat

75 days before the election

One number grows

One number counts towards zero

This afternoon I’ll turn the compost

And the dreaming doesn’t end

when the morning comes

Jim Bodeen

23 August 2024