thou still unravished thou

To   raise   the   ribs to dilate the chest to expand   the   lung   to indraw the
air to enter the mouth to enter the lung.

“Dad,” I said, saying so, “Shea Stadium and Yankee Stadium make
two stadia in New York.” (Hell is two dogs fighting over water.)
“No, nope,” he said, saying so, “two stadiums in New York.

In a town famous long ago
for its field of irises and its bridge
with seven sections (like a poem!),
and an annual horse market,

The bowl made from a tobacco-yellow skull
And the blood of a yearling ox
With seeds of quince floating in it.

When I get time to play, it’s gonna be just you, me, and the Department of Beer.
Amend that: all of the above, all of the above and more beer, and all of the above and the State of Alaska.
Damn right I don’t rightly know what I’m capable of alone and left to my “devices.”