SEX ADVICE FROM HIPPIES

Mental toolkits are the color of brown paper bags 

I’ve never sued anyone! she said at the party

I’ve never pulled a tick off my dog’s butt!

I pulled one off my husband’s butt!

I squeezed into a dumbwaiter and got stuck!

Why do they stand around

passing out candy and screens to children

wondering what real power is

and why students can’t sit still

The saddest part about summer is summer

I could tell she lost empathy when she said she didn’t care

I know exactly the motivations of my son’s bully

Reaching for a balloon the same thing as reaching for oblivion

So charged by the new freshness we voted for it

This wet towel is so moldy it can speak

Poets define sameness generation after generation

Sometimes there’s little evidence you’ve been bitten by a bat