Now That I'm Back

Woman woke up early
 Heard a scraping
 Near her brain
 Imagine when the doc took out the roach
 How much she must have changed
 Afterwards
 It dawned on me
 I heard noise from every corner
 And one night, ate
 Raid-seasoned spaghetti
 Look up,
 The metal sign
 Clangs in the wind from a wire
 Talk small, if at all
 My news is blind
 And on fire
 Only me and big trucks
 Lost, driving from upstate alone
 I came in she had on
 That white uniform
 I had my first coffee with her
 That morning at home
 Victory,
 Gold plated over
 Violence
 No presence save for
 Memories spiraled and bent
 In your bedroom
 Voltaire's severed head
 Stared me back to bed
 You've done your best
 All the way to the end
 Balloons in a foreign park
 Shadows of the dance class merge
 And come apart
 Cough in the mirror, I'd forgotten to call
 Now that I'm back
 We should try again to talk