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.