Drinking with Toni Morrison

“…life was made just so the world would have a way to think about
itself, but it had gone awry with humans…” – from Jazz

What if life was made when Toni

Morrison said because flesh?

Bourbon’s the closest thing to honey

& today we bombed Iran. In the sky

right now the stars are strung up

like a gathering of hoplite soldiers,

lacking but strong. Shining in bronze

armor & wicker shields, each

neighbor answers a call to war.

What if I possessed the discipline

of a star or a soldier? To not drink.

Put down my sword. Become so much

more. Above us at night the chimera

and men fight for something that

was made just so we would have

a way to think about ourselves.

What if life was made so the world

would have something to heal?

Fell from the moon. Ate from

the tree. Monstrous creation.