Tarot Improvisation
He looked back twice, put his foot in it.
The cards were good. The reading
took him round the back of his head
and sat him among the harmonies of
The Byrds’ first album, the bar chords
covered in fine dust. No one had
visited for seasons, the dead skin
under the mattress could have reconstructed
Monterey Pop. He loved those early Byrds LPs,
the mono soundboard, the Cold War passed
from speaker to speaker, frame to frame,
musical chairs of the Aquarian age.
He returned to the hotel and slept heavily,
bit his lip on lucid dreaming. Late the next
morning he’d put all that ribbon in a box
and close the lid, put a call through.
There was no cover she couldn‘t untie
and spread out and lay him out flat
and lie beside him as if it were the most
natural thing, like two pairs and an ace,
a winning combination.
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