INVESTMENT

INVESTMENT

death pitched up
to teach me
how to divide by zero
and to determine
what his return
on his investment
would likely be
.
meanwhile, background
microwave radiation made
it difficult to hear him

and so I set
my soul into
freeze mode, so not
a molecule might move

went cold cold cold
in my
outlook,
philosophically speaking,

laissez faired every inclination
as far as could possibly be