How to Outspend Your Ancestors at Sporting Events
Start by acknowledging: beg-
innings are hard as chalk
line diamonds. Don’t
give their light away with waving
home your sacrifice too soon.
It’s all in the rest, the still
bubbling stump, hollow of prohibitions
past. Where success is stashed in the origin
stories of NASCAR and politicians, there’s a fortune
to be found in couch cushion myths. Just dig
the way a crowd contracts around accidents and scatters
at the first scent of real disaster. Mortality is a magnet
we wear too loose beneath the belief hat. Assume
every goodbye is a bargain. Limited by time
lapse loops in the finite field, gather up your lassoes
to contain it. You
have to take. That simple
equation circles. Its prey
feeds on money’s only known weakness. Its prayer is just
another word for wishing.
Travis Macdonald is a poet, copywriter and small press publisher. He is the author of two full-length collections: The O Mission Repo [vol. 1] (Fact-Simile) and N7ostradamus (BlazeVox) and several chapbooks, including: Basho's Phonebook (E-ratio), BAR/koans (Erg Arts), Title Bout (Shadow Mountain Press), Time (Stoked Press), Sight And Sigh (Beard of Bees) and Hoop Cores (Knives, Forks and Spoons Press). He currently lives, works, writes and co-edits Fact-Simile Editions in Philadelphia, PA.