the table top is wet with rain
I clap it, warmish
I am jackson pollock not bald
winding my elbow hose

a cartoonist
can't draw or write well
she does half of both
the results are overwatered, undergrown

is this?
what, where the styrofoam niblets
soil the pots, is this? that a rural setting
was easier to draw, and I mind

later to add the flourish of a butt or
slushy, the bush breathing cardboard ribs or
damp dotted
phonemes spilling out a wasp