Slowly I don
Undies
Jeans
Top
Shoes
Coat
Brush hair back and decide
Cover it with a hat
Gather
Keys
Lighter
Pack of cigs
Guilt
Old portable am radio
Insert ear buds
Listen to the weather and
Walk as well as I can
Elevator down to one
Static on the airwaves
Exit the low end of the skyhighrise
Stop
Look down
A butterfly
Wings upright
Close together
No flying in the rain
With me under the overhang
I slowly bend
Gently extend a finger and
Place it in front of a monarch's legs
It alights
I slowly rise
Finger with passenger aboard
Close to my face
Where are its eyes
I take us to a dryer space
Talk quietly then look about
Anyone watching this
No
I continue
Wings begin a slowmo flutter
Up down
Up down
Up down
and more
Until
Rain stops
A little sun
Faster Faster
Wings of Nascar
Take flight
Goodbye
I smile
light a smoke
and inhale
