REMAINDER

by rae armatrout from just saying

string of empty offices,

illuminated, festive?

*

people exist

to attach importance.

*

i practice

high speed de-

selection.

*

the difference

between nothing

and nothingness

is existence.

*

my dead friends

don’t visit me;

they say i didn’t

know them.

*

you are cautious

indolent, stubborn,

skeptical, gentle, tense.

*

at sunset, pigeons

practice synchronized flying.

*

thus “are” becomes “is”,

“is” becomes “ness.”

*

let the burning spill

extend.