The Course of Human Events

this dailiness i hear invention
safe from backcountry weather
gone native in the foothill subplot
i could never stand to listen
if this were paris or eureka
there’d be a gold standard
bearded and grim standing
of eye-silent extractions
all anyone asks is freely said
shopped out in middle america
we are spider stories
events for this impossible tourist
that are really a manifest

twenty years to get passed