"my skeleton grin" - 1/12/2018

have you ever watched
water run through sand?

it doesn't soak and sit
it runs through the sand --

a drink running through
a skeleton's white bones

in the cartoons
I used to watch when

I was small. The drink
going over his skeleton

mouth, through his skeleton
jaw, down through his ribs

and running through his
pelvis and down his legs.

I lay awake at night
thinking about how

a skeleton can't keep
anything inside him.

I must be a skeleton.
Or maybe the pills don't work.