Poem

The trick is not to care too much
about fidelity. Let the loss
-y quality of the audio become

another element in
the composition, the under
-study’s voice quivering a little

for the first two songs. It’s been
a long time since seeing a bear on the moun
-tain; once the beekeeper left,

packed his bees up & brought them to
someplace safer (electric light & a neighbor
-hood watch), they did the opposite

of all my loans
& lost interest