Friday, May 23, 2025

mmmmdccxi

When I’ve Been Dead

I want to be Alice Notley’s
When I Was Alive today. 
Today, which is only
a couple of weeks

before I’m 58. I’m
alive. I can be the
heat of sex or 
pretty legs and

thighs. I’m no mo
del nor a waif but I
have always been (in
the sunshine, darkness,

on a dancefloor, up a tree,
in the backyard sandbox) me.

i am alive!