Let’s go
to Ocean Beach
to undermine
the line:
vultures flick
arithmetic;
pups dart,
all heart.
It’s grief,
capsized,
an itch
of otherwise.
The wind
elides—
relief
a thief—
the double life
of consonants:
passing; running.
Theatrical
as the clap
of a laptop,
no one careful
does that. Careful.