I chose some words that I took aside as words I liked and made sets of slant rhymes for ABBA ABBA CDCDCD. That done, I had them ready, with no idea of subject set. On waking I had some thumb twiddler to wake up with.
somewhere before dawn
ambitious day’s train decoupled derailed.
some sinus pickaxe, some bodily aches
who is the master, who is the dog, made
to stay? a bark at small balled body, tail
between legs. jaw in cahoots with the head.
dreams of party-crashing t&t’s retail
mochi, frozen dim sum, moon cakes curtailed.
1000 years away, those quail eggs.
I saw the parking lot full, what a schmuck
to attend unmasked. thought I could carouse
like some Viking king born of gods, what pluck
to feel invulnerable. naif to choose
that as if elastic youth. what the cat drug
in. mousy, mouthed nape fever-damp, I drowse.