I Took the Shortcut

And the sky let me see straight through it.

Infinity giggled, sphinxy.

It was like,

Honey, grandpa is sleeping forever.

Forever's what I must be hungry for

when I've crossed off salt & sugar & sex.

I found my craving underneath a rock,

time capsule of I want I want I want.

I swallowed it with a suicide. I went down the line,

pressed the lever for every carbonated sugar water.

I was through the roof, banned in school.

Left with

aspartame horizon, spilling in furls,

blunt in its come-ons.