The Constant Gardener

lasted about 6 hours after Ralph Fiennes died.
when Sandy and Tessa are talking in Sandy’s office,
the cricket ball on his desk vanishes, then
reappears in a different location.

the moon is so staged.  even the scarab
loitering on Sandy’s loin-cloth.  whose idea was
it, this colossal amoeba will make you
a great fanny-pack.  modest deeds

leading to modest epiphanies.  OK,
I’ll try.  I scrape dry the tarpaulin
over our pool.  when I think of karma
I think, how many kalories in that?

well excuse me for being woken in
the night and waking you up when
you had just drifted off and drifting
off and waking you up when you

had just drifted off and drifting
off and waking you up when you
had just drifted off and drifting
off and waking you up and so on

through dawn and the alarms.
A wakes B when A is drifting
off.  B wakes A when B has
just drifted off.  we never

would have heard Casey try to slip in
at four with a vinegar caddy otherwise.

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