your mayor is raising fences to keep bodies off the don valley parkway

don't want
new friends
they just
become old ones
all too fast

got errands
to run

got
an erection
to calm

and anxiety
to dismantle
and this is just
waking up

criminally
predictable
this man
is
pigeon girls got no religion
at least
that's what
he always says

i'm afraid
to see
through sober
eyes
don't tell mother
my head's
barely attached
a thread
hanger-on

terrified
to consider
what lies
round the bend
more and more
buttons to button
only just to be
unbuttoned again

bludgeoned
by all my yesterdays
bleeding into one last sunset
and then another
and then another
and another
more and more
buttons to button
only just to be
unbuttoned
again