What gods do you believe in? I’ll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them. - Andrea Gibson

...It’s hard to watch
the game we make of love,
like everyone’s playing checkers
with their scars,
saying checkmate
whenever they get out
without a broken heart.

Just to be clear
I don’t want to get out
without a broken heart.
I intend to leave this life
so shattered
there’s gonna have to be
a thousand separate heavens
for all of my flying parts.

Do we really believe our need for Prozac
has nothing t do with Fallujah,
with Kabul, with the Mexican border,
with the thousands of U.S. school kids
bleeding budget cuts that will never heal
to fuel war tanks?

Just me and my suitcase, hanging out wit the sun, learning how to pack light.