NO PERFECT ACTION

we don’t know and we do / people walk in pairs around the lake / did they find each other on the internet / the water like sugar glass / diving boards and ladders gathered from all lake's corners / pickup stick pile/ glad hey get to be together / a rest from summer’s brocean / jacket passes someones else's ski dad / 80s teal and purple with the red velcro / what does everyone have to say / today on this murder morning / holding paper cups, nodding through steam/ the only time i went to jail was coordinated, still underdressed / hours with Margaret Human's tangles/ skinny white braids and warnings / her brother who stabbed his coworker with y2k rage / Meghan the next cell over / selkie songs searching for another voice / rejecting the mutual aid soup after / i did not feel proud or a part / people talk about not giving your anger / like it’s orbiting a white elephant / one time i thought postage stamps would be a good gift / no / a knife set was well received / at what hour of what day is everyone making their decisions / out of contradiction comes creation/ yes / but you cannot determine the shape / yellow soap makes yellow shadow / tinker bell / rainbow ribbon on the shower tile / cornstalks we didn’t grow / people talk about giving gifts to your future self / i had a tamale in the freezer/ true at some point i chose to eat one instead of two / trying to remember the principles of protection / the knuckles of the acronym / could have sworn that i took notes /