Poet-Artist Collaboration 2005

The Other Shoe

Tick, tick, tick

So when’s it going to happen?

While I’m looking the other way

my attention directed

to some happy place

oblivious

naive in hoping

the worst is past

aware on deepest levels

that it’s not

through yet

ready to drop

on its own

perverted schedule

and kick me

right in

the

I

told

you

so.