My best idea so far had been
to take a girl to a half-built house
and feel up her breasts, but bras back then
allowed a woman to feel secure
knowing if she fell out of an airplane
into the ocean and was snagged and dragged
through the water by fifty-mile-per-hour barracudas
her bra would remain in place,
so you’d think I’d be better prepared
but some things can only be true
if you’re not prepared. I love those fools
who think they can sit out the hurricane,
how later they wave from their roofs
with their parakeets at the helicopters.
And people sleeping in public, when