- Keith Banner
Stars Staying Safe
remember that feeling
of wanting to give your
first grade teacher
a gift
every five
fucking minutes?
a little box of
chocolates from k-mart
a homemade
whatever
from art
class
a fistful of dead dandelions
from
morning recess
on
and
on
oh
that feeling of
wanting to give
and show somebody
what
you feel
without wanting anything
back and only
then you'll
understand
stars
staying safe
that one night
at church as well
august 197something
i won
a giant candy bar
for memorizing the most
bible verses
at vacation
bible school
i almost
puked from the
excitement
no shit
stomach ready
to blow
upfront
with a construction-paper
crown on my head
reciting
all that wonder
for strangers and others
me some
biblical
genius
and that giant candy bar
the planet
i came from
ladies and
gentlemen
genesis 5:24
and enoch walked with god
and he was not
for god took him
still remember
that one
to this day
