INCIDENTAL

I was a stranger in a dream. From a high window,

I looked down. A bass line with legs to its tits

and tits to its chin took a long walk out of town.

I was as lonely as the first Jew in America,

as the last dollar in a wallet.

Some nights I could drown in fun.

This is about the economy adrift as a kid

in his dad’s suit. It’s a wide-open continent

and the Kool-Aid here’s the best.

This is about what just happened.

This is about what’s next.