Unusually You

“Attention must be paid,”

said Stu, with BillyBlue

reclining on his spine,

“but when it is,
look out

for how much more of it

you’ll have to pay

tomorrow and the next day

and the next to all

the wayward and waylaid
forgotten misbegotten dark
inscrutabilities

that wait to grab you

by the hair or ankle,

throat or balls

and needle, wheedle
through to undermine
your every last

assumption

and presumptive
point of view.”

“Unusually you, today,”

BlueBilly felt the need

to say about, and to,

his transportation

and companion Stu,

“aren’t you.”

.