remember lebanon
today, as you move about the earth with your loving and leaving,
as you lick the dripping edge of your sweetest memories,
when you slam a door, suprising yourself with your own force,
as you consider the implications of yes and no while your blinker flashes and
spotlight glare tinkles like ice in your side mirror,
when the baby brings your hand to her mouth like food,
when you must have the last word,
remember the unkind suprise of grit in your clean food,
imagine the children now buried with mouths full
of pink wall, nascar poster and steel,
and know this life
is round.
as you lick the dripping edge of your sweetest memories,
when you slam a door, suprising yourself with your own force,
as you consider the implications of yes and no while your blinker flashes and
spotlight glare tinkles like ice in your side mirror,
when the baby brings your hand to her mouth like food,
when you must have the last word,
remember the unkind suprise of grit in your clean food,
imagine the children now buried with mouths full
of pink wall, nascar poster and steel,
and know this life
is round.