Bucket

• Write long letters
  with a broke left hand
  to an address since demolished.
• Read braille with your tongue.
• Walk five miles on a game leg
  to a butte ten miles away.
• Note the weather.
• Call nine random strangers,
  tell them their mothers died,
  but you love them anyway.
• Apologize for cruelty —
  blacken your own eye.
• Drive until the gas runs out.
• Throw rocks at sheet ice,
  enough to dig a hole, a deep hole.
• Kiss her once more
  before she sleeps.
• Sip arsenic for the last six days.
• Fear something else.
  Death is so damn close I can almost
  chew its nails.

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