Ohio

Jean jackets, tattoo sleeves, lurching snow plows Blackout drunks on Sundays For goblins abound on salted roadways Airports and avenues Megaphones, hotel beds, epitaphs Paper roses for paragraphs Scribbled and lazy Infinitesimal seconds With endings guaranteed Undisciplined and silly Obscene Cincinnati chili On noodles gone cold Shadows run like water through the snow Pop songs make me sad A sporting man with a sporting life had In miserable towards of sludge Forgot his shipments and trudged Through bank statements, packages and soil Fertilized with pamphlets that coil In craters and calamities Afterlife's in casualty That I won't belong to Except for in pictures with friends