Always Sometimes Seldom Never.

• Author: Mayes, Edward Kleinschmidt
• Position: Poem

Payback time: gangster turns huckster turns jokester and suckupster, fuckupster, luckster, then lackluster. Talk about time! What about time bombs? If I were given three wishes, I'd have three wishes. Call me a fool, but is this fool half-empty or half-full? We see our mothers in their Dying Rooms. Nurses hushed in nurses shoes. Bag of urine as souvenir. Slash the photos--cut in two the picture i.d. We'll never know when we're in our last rental car. If, if, if--then, then, then. Are we only interested in cause because of its effects on us? I'm about to gush with happiness. I caught my father napping. My brother and I hoisted him out of his chair--we thought he had died again, his pulse as small as a lentil. Put that in your incubator. This is a test. Have you been cheating these last ten thousand days? Suddenly hourglasses are back in fashion. We've put the timer in the oven to see how long it would take to melt...