Pickup(Gaza)
- I took the package
- and he said,
- “Sell your cleverness
- and buy bewilderment.” I guess
- that’s what he thought
- he was selling and I
- buying. On the wall behind his desk
- that Japanese print
- of the wave punching the sailors
- like spent batteries
- floating in their transistor radio.
- That’s
- what it feels like.
- The Green Goblin isn’t raping the sky
- then changing heart
- saving Spiderman
- from his own
- stupid, evil creation.
- There’s badness in the world
- like a spider web tattoo
- and there is us
- sailing the seas of meaning.
- And no Peter Parker dance number
- is going to change that.
- So I took the package
- and I’d take it again. And you know,
- Peter Parker,
- MJ is kind of a slut
- playing both sides like that.