Sometimes, we need a normal
complete sentence.
I was in Prague
in November
where my simple verbs dissolved
in a glass of yellow beer.
There you have an excerpt
from the fourth chapter
of a story that is both over
and only a few more chapters deep.
Narrative, when distracted by prepositions,
has recursed into a cursed stance,
cured like an oversalted ham
standing like a shaved wave
without crest or amplitude
pretending that it will never know
which end is next to
which beginning.