[this is less a critique than a response / more like something that resembles a conversation (aye maybe)]
that erased penny memory (5) perhaps / all this loose change not so loose but counted carefully / counted like deeply cared for throw-aways / things only cared about when it seems no one looks when it seems / the world burns in the absence of such things / aye yes / not a wasted word not a word tossed off in the name of some silly thing like sentiment / the world it expects / sentiment and will sift through the detritus through the sediment / in search of some reflective nostalgia over / looking sadness perhaps / if you prick us do we bleed / yas sass yas but seriously what is blood it dries the color of spit on clay-filled dirt / words cast off what on the wind will find ears / find blood / find / find / that penny heads up ready to be plucked up added / to a loose change jar:: powder reconstituted into animated bones
