Howie Good 2

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Suite by Chance

1

Fish think.

It’s essential, frankly.

I'm not interested

in making this

interesting to you.

Yes, I'm still smarting

over you leaving.

2

The café catered

to the opera crowd.

There were priests

and nuns at the tables

when we peeked in.

Caruso had especially

loved the cookies.

3

Dusk was falling

across the meadow

by this time.

Do you have

a cellphone

in case something

goes wrong?

Words meant

to work

through the night.

4

There are these machines,

and one of them is on fire,

but they tell me it’s a work of art,

and then this guy tells me to put it out,

and the crowd yells “No! No!”

5

The dance is largely

about being still,

a sequence of rendezvous

with available forms

(some might debate that as well),

a yellow pill to help me sleep,

a silver letter opener

plunged into my chest.