Laurie
Eaves

                  as swayze & his faceful of feelings ascend into retina-scarring

   eighties elysium / the police swoop in / find demi & whoopi trembling

   in the loft / next to carl / with that huge shard of window in him /

   cuff them both

                                swayze spends most days questioning / why he went

   to heaven / when he basically killed willie / god says don’t think about

   it so much / but it nags him anyway / puts him off his shot / when

   playing ghost golf

                                                                the nuns never cash the cheque /

   assume it’s a bad joke / it goes through / the wash in a wimple

                                                                            demi’s therapist says she’s

   regressing / spends sunsets on windowsills / one leg dangling /

   over the city / humming unchained / melody wishing they’d picked /

   literally any other song

                                                                            whoopi slinks back to her

   apartment / counts the green / squashed beneath her tattered

   mattress / lighter since she put up bail / some nights she wakes /

   the taste of demi’s florida peach lipgloss / teasing her tongue /

   wonders if she’ll call