Object Permanence

What if the ability

to capture

emblems in the wild

won’t validate us?

What if displaying

our embarrassing flaws

won’t save us — 

say being dead

but kittenish?

 

I can’t show you anything

new, not even

an empty room

behind a velvet rope.

Least of all that!

There’s a Lexus

spinning in a parking lot

because a mountain road is

“so cliché.”

It’s throwing up dust, then more,

but you know the car’s

still in there

somewhere,

still voguing