Ich Möchte: A Monument to My One Date with J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Granddaughter in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1987

Kent MacCarter

Infinitesimally by zit

nucleic chitchat

got spoke in our Trinity

of larges:

cherry-lime sodas, chilli

cheese fries

we ordered to split

in the huge

teenage Friday jalopy –

engineering

we couldn’t un-chain, reverse

out of, undo

that night, Desperately Seeking

Susan’s innuendo

me, she formed invisible umlaut

dropped on

her Grandfather’s verbs

to die, to want

conjugation I’d later

fail

to pronounce

plans for a sequel