David Francis
Man among Myrtles
I am sad. Gustave is a flower
Who thinks, for example:
You got living to do, Skeleton.
Clang, clang.
Petals split under rain.
From the chokeberry’s
Limbs, donkeys curious as jackals.
Gustave, stop choking yourself.
Ech, c’est miserable.
Voilà.