from between the two
smoothest scoops of vanilla
[he] had ever known

celebrate yahoo
for speaking the truth about
drm’d content.

why do you obsess
over magazine pictures?
you’re worth more than this.

blazing hazel eyes,
burning like country hillsides
bathing in wildfire.

year that a billboard
tracking the national debt
appeared in Times Square.

only 95,
with the weatherman’s warning:
feels like a hundred.

please don’t just say yes
to spare me the rejection;
I’ve grown accustomed.