(for Britt)

Bushido cowboys- out in the open
Smoking opium long pipe-dreams
Dangerous configurations
Mystic transition
Blowing smoke rings across a body in outer-space fantasy while waxing poetic nightmare-esque sequences in a Saigon jail…
Transfixed by the glowing cherry of a cigarette
Nicotine sweat makes skin glow like cotton candy
Be kind
Rewind
It’s an analog mutant madness kind of way
Where nothing is at it seems
Reality but shards- fragmented recollections
Elvis mugshot from DEA agent daze under Vegas lights
Nocturnal hawks descend
Wet copper descent
Ash pressed into red skin
Encircled
Blood moon eyes
Long night goodbyes
How I wish
Keeping windows shut
Could prevent us
You and I
With our smoky sensual ventures
From going out
Everything burns…