No Ambiguity

Saint Paul, 8 October 2003

A ghost sign touts Brains - 25 cents

But there’s no ambiguity in Lee’s Liquor Lounge

Where parades of jiggers countermand fortune

Like the scattered furniture of good times

A key lies bedded in pulverized sheetrock

But there’s no ambiguity in the sign above the door

Where pyramids of cyclone dust swirl like the

Shattered tumblers of whereabouts accidental