people wore things and others took things off in a sense spectacle in another sense calamity the book hides all these secrets the woman walked to the park in the park she sat by the fountain by the fountain there was a threat and the threat persisted in oohing there was red there was cobalt there was pink there was amber and by extricating herself from the threat she discovered a new mode of being she persisted in believing in the power of ladling lacquer on her nails a blue comment a sip of soda made from a root where most things origin after all a light turned on after hours whichever hours the moon and then there was a crown on the building blocking it the natural night large guns a potato chip stall things have things in common or else they simply persist beside one another bedside mannered a new hat borrowed new shoes blistering heat and then shade and then time to kill to save to salvage a flight a drink a toast a happiness a crowd gathers to make last a little longer a glass topped off wondering in wander at the top of a hill light slippering through