...and I’ll tell you it’s not going to get easier,
only harder.
—John Ashbery
I told you it wasn’t the end of the world.
Your trust is imaginary and affords me
quite the generous stipend. Down is not
South, Up is not North. Trust me, I saw
numerous medical professionals about
my ongoing vertigo throughout the
1990s. We look up and down trying to
find someone of age. Finally, we take
the bus to the station, get out, walk
all the way back home. Then we go
to dinner, some fish place. I had the
steak with pommes frites, you had an
Orange Julius and a side of bacon.
