“Many Acts, Which We” by Michael Vizsolyi

Let us say for the sake
of argument

and actually mean it.

There’s an old man
who claims
to keep the moon clean:

and from that angle, you can see
ash trees fade like
wind-blown ash trees fade like
wind-blown ash.

I don’t know that the latter ever has memory of the former.

I have a memory
of a stripper

with a balloon. I don’t think she

had a balloon-the one
I remember-

but I like balloons, blue ones,
so I remember it that way.       Everything

above your head
is a half-truth.       You should learn

to tie your shoes the way
I would tie your shoes.

There hasn’t always been a ‘we,’

linguistically speaking.