poem for digging up rocks (putting googly eyes on them)

for gbe.

Throw a rock it must
Sit where it lands. That's how I feel accepting another unexpected run-in, 
Sun to rock synergy, 
And he's wearing pearls. 

Before, there we were. 
Flesh of a wrinkled-sheet morning, fish of light buttering the ceiling 
Opal screens winking, I sustain, I'm good like corn pancakes. 
And the covid-weather is mild. 

So considering, we went. Friends teabag 
Fluid osmosing thru their thought bodies.  
The stars point downward. 
We were six hours late to the function. 

But for tangerines- bitch, free food is free. I dozed in the car 
I danced in my soup. The more I shouldn't 
The better it is, we call that 
forbidden makes the fruit. Isomorphically I'm a wool-eyed yes 
before we hit the vote. My lubed throat 
Unfit, stitched with paranoia, lying or denying or imagining covid tickle. 
I'd rather not know. 
Never going to maintain friends this good 
Once they know. 
I should say no more often than a rock
Which can't. 

Moon trickles into the bathroom and I follow her
Looking for restless vibe-check or better yet 
Principles, and she leads me out, to where the people are, and then you call,
Just to show off the disappointment in your voice. 
Perfect. Here, let me practice. Pedestal-carver, 
Let me let you down easy, 
Let me let you down.  

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