Kit Kelen - Series with Jack Picone's photographs - #21 - crossings out

21

crossings out

when you cross out the heart

you take a risk

all the needs are simple

it's over-the-border business

coming here

and sending back

the body is another shadow

sometimes that's the only way

risk anything

for love

an alphabet remembers us,

keep count

you take a risk

when you cross out the heart

whiff of a wad

and a flicker of cash

only strangers can

visit a brothel

love’s mechanics go on there

they hollow out the word

you take a risk

when you cross out the heart

there are ones at home

whom this helps

the body is another shadow

sometimes that's the only way

you take

a risk