Jane Joritz-Nakagawa
Buildings fall
Buildings without lights
Stare back at meHow frightening space is
A book a life raft
A life an invention
A molecule is you
A molecular level inverted
(I love the man on my left)as the comet slams into Jupiter
to reproduce that feeling
have you never reached your full potential?
seen any shady characters?On the raft
The shady characters
In bundles asleepAre frightened of the
Space in the inverted buildingsThe feeling of reproduction
And the planetsJupiter is as angry as Mars
Red from too much drinkingAlthough you’d like to stay protected
In the shade your mother pushes you
To the front nearly in the corrupted path
Of oncoming traffic
The molecular raft
A sex vacation for couples
In love with inventions
Alcoholic planets and books staring
At frightened spacey buildings
Like rafts caught in the trajectory
Like the man on my left
Who reproduces corrugated feelings
A sex molecule
Or shady vacation
Coupled with the oncoming feelings
In love with a raft
Your mother may have warned you about
Inventing planetsAs buildings fall