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You’ll Get Better Attention When You Die

We lived in a puddle before the wave.

If you remember either, the latter wasn’t big enough.

We hurtle down the Grand Canyon

with our pet chimp

in a punctured raft:

Can you believe this is only 4000 years old!

he exclaims

or seems to,

hard to tell over the roar.

Give me better priorities

or come insult me

if I make it to the riverbank

so I won’t want them as much.

Plants are lyric, animals epic,

depending on numbers of either—

send my best to the underground

fungus in the Northwest, the biggest

one we’ve met.

The number of everyone I lost to AIDS in my 20S

is small compared to what.

Go on,

wax beautiful

above what makes the world,

glorious bastard years.