Lucie van Dam van Isselt’s Dead Bird (c. 1925)
I Can’t Ask What You Ask of Me
Stimulant summer
turned into stimulant fall
It became useful to beg for forgiveness even if
you didn’t know what went wrong, or if anything actually did
It's not the tragedy of our time
but I'd say it's part of it
Need Deep
Poetry moves the mind,
alcohol moves the body
Ultimately, what would set me at total ease
would be something like a DoorDash handjob
and stranger on the street to recognize
I got something to say
Lucas Restivo is a drunk monk from Massachusetts.