A Better Way to Zone
By Alli Warren
Habits accrue
in circular pattern
and living occasion
swollen among what
the dead have to teach us
So, ear, be an instrument for thought
Tide, bring some
little green thing to dust
behind my eyes
Touch the hotpoint
and drag the tongue
over the fat belly
of a flapping fish
Sticker book
of farm animals
Sticker book of ole timey cats
What is life and how shall it be governed?
With blind devotion
and endurance in the impossible
for guts in everything for roots
in plain sight
Share a lung
Accumulate none
Say hello to the crow
There are certain chord progressions
one should avoid
Copyright Credit: Alli Warren, "A Better Way to Zone" from I Love It Though. Copyright © 2017 by Alli Warren. Reprinted by permission of Nightboat Books.