other animals

After crawling on 95 after
a salty meal after recycling the
last ideas pinned to the moldy cork
after snoozing some forced friends then after
humidly leafing through the museum

of wasteful catalogs after walking
the dog and cleaning up after the dog
washing the towels plates and small forks of
our ritual dessert once the air is

cleared of sulfur and mildew and the old
toilet is passably clean the new car
charged the simple altar dusted we may

find a stick and throw it into the sea
and see what kind of tomorrow we can buy