The euclid speedway holds me
and studies my gold face
to see if I am old enough to kiss you.

It sounds like a steel coaster and
a smear of screams indivisible elemental
rushing up to Mom
waving! Hi! Let’s people-watch we have tickets for food
you can stuff your face today is
the day come on today is the day
and everything your belly can’t hold is puke
and everything it shouldn’t is just the price of a good time
a kingdom of fear
and of no danger
and of we-have-your-epi-pen.

Axiom:
    My favorite ride is the tallest.

Proposition:
    You don’t scream because it lifts you legs dangling or
    because it drops you but because you learn
    your body is passed shrugging and feckless through every instant.

It’s killing me I’m sure
but who isn’t
Lately the crickets keep me company
We drink, from the same glasses
wet and broken but
It’s better to take your licks,
the poison’s in every cup.