my sister said she saw a dog in the river - first she saw the paw then the blue body - why are you telling me this! it makes me sick - sick like the smell of the staten island marshes. sick like wind from a sanitation truck tangling my hair when i walk to work i have a bucket beneath an air conditioner - it drips all night - a pool for dead flies and chipped paint -the ceiling is caving in - at night i dream i'm moving again and again - moving too much is like never growing - a fire snapping your heels. - i would like to be mummified and rest next to you - laugh at all the shit we took too seriously like flossing our teeth and vitamin d - laundry, and leaving the apartment, clipping our nails, eating kale, the news, health insurance, deodorant, - when i am a mummy and you are one too we will be filthy and flawed - unhip - techless - and slipped into the Egyptian wing of the Met - i'm packing my cat's ashes what will you bring?