Knife Fights Every Night

Explain stomach aches thighs Tigris and
Euphrates broke and broken afraid of
The neighbors don’t have the strength
For the mornings don’t have the face for
The knife fights every night
Mr. Sophistication found hung from his family tree top
Tooth popped through his bottom lip dedicates this one
To the memory of potential swallows
All his hellos knocks over
Blos’ming ashtray crown of ends
And with eyesocket hungup on doorknob tosses off
All afternoon
This is how I dance:
I try not to
Then might despite
My trying not to