The Buses Have Left

You cannot get rid

of the body

[here]

in the countryside

 

 

The house has many rooms but

[each already]

has [its own] furniture

 

 

Like the [eye fills its] socket

 

 

[Among] the village nightlife

there are [fewer

games for] the sexually active

 

 

You are [far]

from the hygienic labs of your youth

 

 

And taste

greenhouse bananas

with a [predisposed] tongue

 

 

The device

you retrieved

[from under the skin]

displays

unwanted data

 

 

Whoever smells the body on yours

will have [no

opportunity]

to refuse the drug you hide [in

the sandwiches]

 

 

I cannot [get help] by phone

 

 

I do not know how to send [a letter]

 

 

[Somewhere]

my family sees

the [same] violet sunrise

[that stains] my wool sweater

 

 

Or [they would]

if [they were] not [asleep]