What kind of serious do you mean?
Long line serious?
Hard spine serious?
I'm a fragmentary kind of serious,
a sandcastle that deconstructs
grain by grain.
The kind of serious I think you mean
is the kind that is considered effective,
according to an algorithm that sits inside
the head of a place and the feet of a person,
sweaty, overused, unconcerned with medians.
Serious cars cross the road
without regard for yellow.
And I have always considered the automobile
a special case of the gun
fired constantly, unrifled bullet.
The kind of serious with a memory.
I would not know about memory.
You can only forget the last chapter
if you're reading the novel
not writing it.
Roman Ryan 