I can taste your make-up
and the laptop sounds like it’s going to explode
or take off to Mars or something. The sun shines
amazingly and I’m inside making lists. How to go
beyond the list? Get something done before
the explosion or take-off? Stop picking up signals
from 1991 radio waves, keep looking up songs on
YouTube, fantastic tunes I’d completely forgotten
for over a decade, like Aldo Nova’s Fantasy,
Red Rider’s Lunatic Fringe, Saga’s On the Loose,
and, wow, Van Stephenson’s Modern Day Delilah
from Righteous Anger, 1984, one of the first
albums I ever purchased with cash earned bagging
groceries, cassette tape (my first ever album was
Queen’s Greatest Hits, that one my one-and-only
8-track tape, but that’s one too many diversions)....
