You coming home tonight?

Naw. Be back Sunday likely.

Spend the next forty years

moving the thermostat around.

The thing I don't understand

is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race

Creeping

normalcy.

It would as well be ten minutes back in time

for all the chance you’ll change your mind.

Firmly rooted

in its own separate logic.