All that Jazz

Pliny Said 30 x 24 cm - collage on canvas

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“I’ve always tried to take

the most interesting path,”

an academic poet tried to explain,

“Hoping by doing so that I’d become

a path others might choose to follow.” Everything

we do is gesture, I wanted to add. But didn’t.

There’s so much explaining going on. Once,

my father-in-law, and in High German, no

less, said, “Have a seat, I want to tell you

all about the key to my success in life.” I knew

then I would need another drink, and later

the majority share of a joint. Most of us

are like brothers and sisters, twins, who don’t like     

each other. Angry siblings fighting over scraps of food  

and love, our mothers and fathers failing to notice.

If I’m a puzzle to myself, just imagine what you are to me.