Mark DeCarteret

enough already

rain inside rain again
I have no idea how or why

it shows up as an opera star
or a rope or a water drop on a slide

rinses off miles of slimming
tea & film treatments

any gains yesterday
are yesterday’s gain

I worship another line
of mine at the workshop

order the pork w/
the sesame noodles

I don’t like it when my blood
ends up outside my body

or when the soul loses touch w/
the very things that got it here

to wait in slow motion
another wall in need of paint

this was all I had to go on
dot to dot to dot to dot

rain after rain again
fasts on nothing but air