fisherman with a beer smoking a cigarette listening to Nirvana scaring all the birds fisherman with a beer smoking a cigarette listening to Nirvana scaring all the birders fisherman with a beer smoking a cigarette experiencing nirvana enlightening all the birds Kurt Cobain with a guitar shooting heroin scolding the fisherman for scaring all the birds birder with a water bottle holding their binoculars listening for birdcalls also scaring all the birds Eric Fischman with a beard smoking a joint listening to a poem about scaring all the birds Great Blue Heron with a bill slender like a cigarette listening to water spearing all the fish fisherwoman with a beer smoking a cigarette listening to Nirvana scaring the man
fisherman with a beer scaring nirvana listening to cigarettes smoking all the birds a beer with a scare birding the smoke listening to man fishing nirvana fisherman with no beer no cigarette no music bored a dad with a fishing pole drinking and smoking showing his son how when Nirvana was brand new me with a beer smoking a cigarette listening to Nirvana scaring all the birds fisherman with his own life doing his own things doing things I wouldn’t scaring me me with binoculars watching a fisherman with a beer smoking a cigarette listening to Nirvana instead of watching all the birds
I resent I hafta share this world with those who seem different I understand I hafta share this world with those who seem different can I embrace I hafta share this world with those who seem different?
– August 2017, Sedona, AZ
Previously appeared in Boulder Weekly
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