We Are the House That Holds the Table at Which Yes We Will Happily Take a Goddamn Seat after Solange

No one can serve two masters like we can, be future

and what they threatened to forget, be Richard Pryor Live on Sunset

and be the sunset. Kiss the ground, burn it to the ground, slay dragon,

speak dragon. Sometimes it feels like we invented America ourselves.

The difference between worth and worthless without them

is science: how it feels to not be able to see a person, and the number

of instances when we believed we should die. For dinner, watermelon

and a dry white. Gin nightcap, low moon. How fucking dare we.

The probability of a wave carrying a pearl in its mouth

is the probability of a lamb slicing its own white neck

tying its legs to a spit for someone else’s feast.