Goldilockslifts me into the red light blue light mouth of the car ambulance slides me in smooth and clean and metallic a cookie sheet of fish sticks going into the oven the story of Jonah I am the fish swallowed by a whale that likes its fish fried Goldi helps Tara climb in straps down my chest and thighs Ready for lunch I say to Tara smile at her Ooo she says she doesn’t know I feel like fish sticks on a cookie sheet she thinks I’ve gone crazy inside an ambulance Goldi looks at me like I’m full of s**t and I am! nickel plated s**t Darren said adults have ten pounds of s**t caked to the walls of their intestines by the time they’re forty
Fieldsplay through my head in black and white slow motion it is beautiful Patty next to me low flat brick apartments baseball diamonds rough red sand lau
