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passive notice or notification


   


feeling like another
      free calendar
proferred to sort out
my life — it must be
that season again —

I don’t normally
think I’m “out of it”
               at the time —

it takes time to get
that I didn’t get it

lessons we remember
             overcoming
      so that we might live
all night a little longer

catalogues of crushed
       desire compacted



Buck Downs  creates poems as postcards, stickers, voicemail, and other author-published ephemera. In 2017, Furniture Press Books published a selected poems, Unintended Empire. A native of Jones County Miss., he lives in Washington, DC.