these days you get loaded
questions from people
younger than you: how
do you get to live
like you do?
and you don't
resist the urge
to testify: “try, always
try, and when failure
visits, like a drunk
in the night, have a beer
with him before you
send him on his way.”
they like your skate shoes
and how you walk
around, fearless in the middle
of a work day. you wonder if
they really care what you say.
