Yet It Can Happen Casually

Now these thoughts come winding and so quick

My eyes vaguely hear the miraculous yellow roar

Maybe something beautifully hard takes wing

Something serene enough to find alternatives

To the first commiserating day of shaggy summer

Here’s when I give America all my murmurings

Behind a dirty windowpane and a handkerchief

For snotty summer colds O happy summer colds

Hello America! Please accept my shabby much

Maligned and malingering heart please take

Your time with kisses that initiate something

Down the lengthening shadow of summer
Here’s when I split my name down the middle

With the same blade I use to measure my cock