As/Is







4.21.2004


in advance of the storm

In advance of the storm
it would be hard otherwise to justify
the extremity in the way
you push your case, my friend

(acorns in July)
but others disbelieve as though by instinct.
What better season, you argue?
to ditch your friends and

get out of town fast,
eliminate the obvious?
Eating small birds for lunch
to atone for the sins of his ancestors--

not my idea of a feast for the eyes.
How long before the next vicissitude?
He calculated the likelihood
in advance of the storm