so much better than stars

stars ~ disassociatedly distant
that you notice for a minute
puffing at your cig to the sounds of the whistling highway

attention lotto scratch off may reveal your pondering of them
one night alone with a joint in a relative's backyard
cherishing the weaning edge of your continentals

stars flickering

a poignant partisan of poetics or prose
perhaps wondering in time
what more can be said of stars?

so I say of a pebble rolled in soft sand
how the tiniest unraveling of earth
shows its path,
when I'm asked about... stars...

because,

infinitely convoluted by the continual need for continual definition by terms made of itself

stacking magnifying glass on top of magnifying glass on top of magnifying glass

hoping to find some sort of rip in the universe that'll allow us to have our minds blown

when the material for detonation is self-contained and how we envision is key to ignition

and like
some people will just never understand any of this

so girl outside of bar musing out a response from me to your attention lotto scratch off showing three stars
as I puff my cig, having reverently marveled the foundation of marvel itself, the sky, back in the way when
am going to tell you about a pebble

rolled over soft sand

and shed the tiniest feather of hope
while mentioning Jack and the Beanstalk
or nuclear powered power plants
that one day you'll finally move off of Free Parking

at which time I become victor of a Tic-Tac-Toe

and I guess that same thing holds true for trees
wave-harassed vessels on reckless oceans

anything to do with walls and the bouncing that happens when you fling a twenty-five-cent gumball machine rubber mold of satisfaction turned abrupt sense of loss and chaos in between two walls

anything to do with throwing knives and how to throw knives so you can be throwing knives

so yeah

ask me about the stars, intoxicated female

and prepare to think

that I am a moron

and then one day

a rat ate a hole in your brand new red dress and all of a sudden nothing in the world makes sense anymore