climbing onto this church/ thank god/ carrying a giant rake with me to scare walking individuals

last february i drove home from the library next to finch fieldhouse, sigur rós was on the cd player in the car with a tape adapter/ i saw an elephant walking out of a circus truck into the parking lot of finch fieldhouse

god help me im throwing my neighbor off a building

i drink ten gallons of rice milk and pull the headlights out of my car hood/ now they are way gone

you are gone/ for lunch i had peanuts

– Poems by Steve Roggenbuck, from i am like october when i am dead (public domain); photos by Jay Gabler