H1N1

I figured this was a good enough place to be sick
or to start a family, made them out of bronze Mohave dust,
waiting room Jeep commercials I was waiting for a crime to be solved.

My cousin played a victim on one of these
with made-up stab wounds from after she had been raped.
Boys zipped her body up you could tell there wasn’t coffee in those cups,

just somewhere for detective lips to rest in between kisses.
it’s a good thing she was an actress, otherwise she might have been a wife,
and she just doesn’t have the hips for that.

Real easy to play dead when it’s so sunny out that window.
My eyes don’t care to be open and watch purple forms
drift against each other and I get my flu vaccine.