Morphine on the Beach
from Roulette page 5
ISBN 0-9674900-6-5
Petaluma, 1999
Second printing, December 2000
Third printing, August 2003
Fourth printing, May 2008
$8
A form in the water
blue water
A drug they say
white and crashing
on this sand
A love of sorts
A shot of sainthood
A memory of us
on the beach
Drowning
Crisis
Roulette (p. 18)
I sat next to an old lady on
the bus today, skin tight on
her bones. Clutching a purse full
of old Kleenex. Not looking at all,
just staring at her shoe lace,
wishing she had tied it
before leaving the house.