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Ode to Buttoning and Unbuttoning My Shirt

Listen No one knew or at least I didn’t know they knew what the thin disks threaded here on my shirt might give me in terms of joy this is not something to be taken lightly the gift of buttoning one’s shirt slowly top to bottom or bottom to top or sometimes the buttons…

4 tygodnie temu

@ross-gay

feet

Friends, mine are ugly feet: the body’s common wreckage stuffed into boots. The second toe on the left foot’s crooked enough that when a child asks what’s that? of it, I can without flinch or fear of doubt lie that a cow stepped on it which maybe makes them fear cows…

4 tygodnie temu

@ross-gay

To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian

Tumbling through the city in my mind without once looking up the racket in the lugwork probably rehearsing some stupid thing I said or did some crime or other the city they say is a lonely place until yes the sound of sweeping and a woman yes with a broom beneath…

4 tygodnie temu

@ross-gay