I came in from an object train
To music slowly
Slowly cauterizing

It was not very hypnotizing

Everyone took pictures left
In search of better things to expect
Like their pictures

But I took that bus
Like a man with a box
And heard a black man tell a black man
You're not in September anymore

I guess I just turned 24

I remember there was something
I wanted to look like there
The banks that keep the rivers off the streets
Proclub's still upstairs I guess
Undeclared
Tending to the clinic there
Chicago lapping past
Like a brick lake
Borrowed from the hospital
Of children's
Second dignity

Jesus trembles thee
Betty ford