Kerri Shying R # 518 - just get the hangover

this isn’t an immune system     more

a collection   of bad ideas    who fight

like drunks   outside  a just-closed bar

in the suburbs of a country town   my

body  it’s tied one on    without me    I

just get the hangover 

as permanent   as a monument    some

Big Thing   installed by a committee

then let to rust   collect graffiti   and piss

visited  at times   by outsiders    who leave 

 afraid    befuddled     well before the dark