Courtesy of Wave Books.

“oh the burden of
nouns no
verb can budge” Frank said

“like what?” his sister asked

“corpse” he said

“TOSS THE
CORPSE! LET’S
PLAY TOSS
THE CORPSE!” she yelled

“oh
you got
the corpse
moving” he said

“when will
you learn Frank
there is NO noun
a verb can’t cure”

*

“I want to
move to
another
city” Frank said
“so long as
I don’t have
to take
myself
with
me”

*

Frank yawns “you’d never
know I lived for years
in the upper
left hand
bureau drawer
with a broken
spring and
corroded
batteries
in my neck
if I hadn’t
just
said
so