a fistful of c-47s, we're a stack of sheets
blowing around in the dusty grey highway
--and you trace a line 6 hours long
on the palm of your hand--

this chained line signifies but points only to another signifier
which signifies another signifier--a great boring
chain of being who strangled a toddler in Tucson in 1996

and your little horizontal lines--
indicate you build
things--

we don't remember--
facts, facts, everywhere
but not a drop to drink