You initiated the conversation so I dictate the terms
Since this confidence man badge came from the cub scouts and all
Remain in the three-piece but flamingo-hopping into two slides
In full view, you better mind me
Hit-em-in-the-peaches wit
Lil mini man looking all up out his future fearspace
Not seeing me picking away with a pencap at the locks of mine
So at perception’s suggestion, I’m gonna catapult rocks meant to prevent erosion into waves
Proper ecoterrorism
Yes to looking up at gulls, awaiting the moment shit drips in my nasal
Yes to confusing the percolator with being drunk and tripping over the feet
You didn’t think there (in public this time)
Yes to staking this transient turf as the free land of necessary regulations
Such as heart rate, oxygen intake and one crate of almond/ginger snaps per day
A glance or several outside the box — see any ring on my finger?
Maybe you got time for differentiating fireworks from shooting stars
Mining them in service of your fixation on political discourse
Posting the comparisons on commercial paranoia forums
I don’t; need to be too busy
Celebrating I wasn’t deified yet and breathing thanks to those who were and will
Low likelihood of stagnation in said headspace
Nothing else to do but try