victory

My dad just told me the best story, about when he was in college and he convinced his friend Dave Green to enter a pizza eating competition. Apparently, Dave said something along the lines of:
"Why would I want to eat enough pizza to make me sick?"
and Dad replied:
"You don't. You just want to sit down, eat some free pizza, and leave when you're done."

This is brilliant. This is fantastic. I want a list of all the eating competitions over the next year. I like how losing at eating competitions is winning at life.

i will be your saccharine

this morning
before I whittled my face and rewrote my autobiography
sirens were singing

and their wordless cries kept lids
on my desert eyes and plugs
in my feminine ears
sibillant hymns were cracking window panes
singing-- choruses from chrysalis,
seraphim, and syphilis

here's the truth
i will be your saccharine
this cottonwood summer is ours
let me tell you a story about a doomed ship named regret
quietly
because everbody knows everybody in the dark
we're bumping elbows
trying to watch some fireworks