Circus Maximus

by Jean Paul Ferro

1. sitting on the mirrored red hood of my

Camaro; your bra coming undone;

2. Tolstoy, Stone Mountain, Chopin, movies,

movies you shouldn’t see, questions;

3. people, sex, life, religion, politics,

Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, abortion;

4. the road to your house, the Coke machine

next door, cancer, funerals, Tahiti, the old red

apple trees;

5. UCLA, Sasquatch, Miami, Jamestown, Narragansett

Parkway;

6. speaking in tongues, this girl, that girl,

another nobody girl, a trip girl;

7. Venice, Lugano, messages written on walls,

dying all night, St. Marks Square, being human,

E=MC²