ARRIVAL

Where do you go to pay?
How long do you stay?
What if no one’s there?
Do you sit until they come?
What do we get for being stupid?
When is a wrong wrong enough?
Who do we face exactly?
Are there rocks to hide behind?
Who’s watching who’s more perfect?
Do we leave footprints on a cloud?
Or, are you up to your shorts in blasphemy?
Do you still wear shorts, or were they taken for evidence,
like your guns in Deadwood?
Will he or she take a joke or two?
And if one joke fails, do you try another,
or do you get that certain feeling
that the one about the cross-eyed Angel didn’t work,
or had they heard it?
And . . . what happened to my body bag?