Kevin's Kvetch

I’m descended from John Smith

of the Mayflower

but I’m not proud of it.

We’re all descended from

murderers and rapists

if you open that can of worms;

it becomes a supermarket

I’m tired of being injured,

I needed to reinvent myself.

When I run, my ankle looks like

someone is shaking a plastic bag

full of bones.

I’m an artist now:

writing lyrics or creating sculptures.

I accept that I’m not going

to make money.

I can’t do anything on a computer--

I’m an analogue guy

in a digital world.

This salmon has been swimming

upstream his whole life.

I’m not expecting it to flatten out

into a lake.