drones flagpole cameras car trackers and find apps ring doorbells, hidden monitors satellites and security surveillance, why try to break the law these days, if somewhere, something or someone sees and knocks on your door in the middle of a mouthful of pizza or an orgasmic dream and lassoes you to your crime? why try to get away with anything? because every so often, stupid thinks it’s smart because, and this is all of us, we like to lie a little to ourselves and

I hear later this week we’re having a July day in March a day of hard shadows and fire, the sun turning up its burner to blister the skins of spring yet to harden while young leaves and flowers extend their arms to the warm candle a flamethrower will blow them back things will burn, animals will press into shade and everything will drink whatever they can and we may wonder about the world we live in, how bad news carries its own weather and the extended forecast app

my mood today doesn’t match the lazy sun’s, not even the flat one of the cumulus clouds as I pull out my own cloud umbrella and walk head down inside its shadow, where others can’t see the face which manufactures those fake and forced “Hi’s” for some reason, a gardener draws out of me a genuine greeting, a fully felt “Hello” something inside felt a need to deliver a message between cultures, too long, too far apart after that, I shed that umbrella dropping it by sid