I joined the Actor’s Guild. Within a week I lost a pound


& my office parties became off-key fantasies. Flutists


scaled for kodo, on a familiar toepath of scents.

Come again, I will say,


thinner tones & soft muscularity are proof
— our brains were being stolen; after

we wandered back home muttering “TV,


TV” — a mildly eccentric suburbia


waiting for an awe-inspiring payday of relaxation

& thickening plots with ‘heavenly touches.’

Time to come? I hoped you might &?