there’s something in the oven
it is a land of indecision
I mean maybe it is
I’m not sure, maybe
it’s a small plane flying important
people across the sky
what are their names?
Matthew, Luke, Henry, Funnycakes
no, not really Funnycakes
it’s Joketeeth
Joketeeth is
an important person
he’s President of the Front Left
Burner, that illuminated coil that
radiates red heat into
outer space
yes, there’s this
spiral of heat
rising from the earth
an elegant coil passing out of
our galaxy, waiting for some
aliens to heat up some water
or what passes for water on their planet
waiting for Smerg and Zoombaby to reheat
their extraterrestrial pasta and begin
their lonely dinner on a silver grey
planet far from earth

what will they talk about?
the theft of retirement savings cutlery from the idea bank?
the notion of gigalenium intra-pasta as an edible wormhole?
library knee joy at proto-school?
they will talk about Herman Melville
though for them it means ‘plate’
it means ‘small sister’
it means hearing reports minute by minute
from each of their lopsided ovaloid cells
about how time passes
about how the slightest intercellular variation means
a small plane makes a small line
across the sky
makes a new way to decide
how to be born

your right eyebrow
becomes you as a child
won’t stop hitting
your left eyebrow as you drive yourself
to the hatbox where
you will be born before dinner
thanks! you say to no one in particular
and they don’t reply