homework done she races for bed
you call her for goodnights and i love yous
she cuddles back then upstairs and gone
so short on ceremony
engrossed in details
reciting the narrative of and this happened
that is sooo disgusting
that is sooo cool
when i'm twenty i will retire
and live in that house (points to a house on saratoga lake)
absent in a thousand small spaces
manager of cats and wide-eyed faces
a smile articulated for the millennium
a child a 100% premium orange juice pineapple child
when she's absent you know what it is to be forlorn
Marek Lugowski
17 October 1999
Valley Falls, New York
