A comma, a period, inflections.
Rules, laws, religions.
I before e, except after c.
Capital punishment.
In God We Trust.
Every word a traveling vagabond,
every bell a prompt for dogs.
Repeat after me: I love you.
I love you too. Recite it like
the pledge of allegiance,
do you meant it?
Look in the mirror
and say either one
like you believe yourself.
Its December in Miami
and its eighty degrees.
I’ll be lying on the grass
looking at the moon
pretending I’m snow.
DQ 12/29/30
