Genetically Lettered Candies

Today I read another Juan Felipe Herrera collection, Notes On The Assemblage. Coming up with interactions with his work is difficult. He languages complex and phrases linebreaks deliberate huh. I enjoy his image words that sudden and then. But for this exercise, I merely modeled my title after one of his (Saturday Nite At The Buddhist Cinema).

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Thursday Afternoon
At The Pessimists' Laundromat And Cookie Dough Cafe

My cousin caught a Lickitung while the tennis balls pummeled
the pillows in the industrial dryer 

Avoiding writing music is a full time job he says
moving his head with the air fluff 's gentle tossing

I am chewing the generically lettered
candies from the peanut butter cookie dough cone

My receipts laid out on the table

I don't know why you bother with taxes my cousin
who doesn't want to be identified in my writing and isn't even
related to me
says You don't drive anymore
          You don't have kids to school
          You're never sick
          Fuck the system 
                                         man
          Save up your cash and go to dsfkzdljjhgxbaemlfxjh

I'm not sure I like peanut butter cookie dough in a cone
                                                                                       with confetti swirls
But I also don't enjoy doing laundry or
                                         paying taxes
       I'm pretty sure my current lifestyle depends on me
                                                                                                doing things I've never liked
                                                                                                                        in places I never imagined 
                                                                          would exist