Ouroboros as Lifestyle Design
His mustache made him look like a snake,
she said,
before fading to black.
The quails and ground squirrels
skate across the asphalt,
dodging hungry ghosts
with bloated bellies and pinhole mouths,
track marks between toes.
A girl swings
in the same swing
her mother haunts.
Loose dogs harass
packs of stray cats.
Sticky Tajin fingers reach for monkey bars;
Jamaican nurses, children
with faces sewn on backwards;
divorced dads lost in Instagram thots.
The boat goes nowhere,
cries a half-born butterfly,
squirming as the snake-man
consumes her cocoon.