Written by Jay Logan Lance
five frozen azalea bushes
hang out under the window
like teenage miscreants,
snuffing their cigarette butts
in the snow
elsewhere in our infinite
universe, on one of the infinite
planets that is a copy of ours,
one of the azalea bushes
has one less leaf, lost
the indifferent way teenagers
will spit and leave
DNA fingerprints
at the scene of the crime
on another copy, the azalea
bushes hang out under the window
like five wheelchair bound
residents of a nursing home,
waiting outside the dining
hall, their heads almost in their laps,
their minds fuzzy with the decision
to get applesauce or peaches
here’s what I did to confound
infinity: I took a plastic
figurine of James Madison,
the fourth president of the U.S.,
and I hid him in the second
bush from the left,
tucking a cigarette butt
in the crook of his tiny arm
on yet another copy, infinity
responded with a rogue
iron meteor smashing
into my back as I bent
over the bush
so cliché, infinity
Text © Jay Logan Lance
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