Saturday, October 18, 2025

Beyond the Pale of Stray and Distant Skies

Highest payouts for your scrap
Ferrous and non-ferrous
10 public scales
Xperienced metal sorters
Zero waiting around

Half phlebotomist, half curandero 
She said she was born in Roswell, New Mexico
(Before the aliens came)
And she could tell you 
All the wrong places to start over.

It wasn’t the worst thing ever
When he beat the shit out of her, she said.
It wasn’t like the love of her life
She was devastated type of thing.
Dude he literally like was addicted to glue.

You look like a nice guy, she said 
You look like the kind of guy
If he had money in his wallet 
He’d buy a person a meal.
Looks can be deceiving, I said. 

My oxidative stress is through the roof,
My failure to file a flight plan has impacted
My nonlinear consumer journeys,
My credit score is on the chopping block,
My agency hangs in the imbalance.

I guess that’s why we’re both here, she said.
Domiciled trackside in the maze
Of Cartesian epidemiology,
United in solitude and partnership 
Under pale, stray and distant skies.


Copyright 2025 Randy Stark

 


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