when you do anything

words of caution
when you do anything
when you step on a street
when you step on a crack
when you go into a submarine
when you descend in the bathysphere
when the lights go dim
when your handds shaking light everywhere
when your face comes apart
when you're center left and justified
when you can't get arrested
when you do get arrested
when you don't know who you have to
when you know what you have to do to be well to do
when ghosts start farming out your hairline
when rabbits are bears
when there's hell in the cornfield
when your beauty is long long gone
when your mind grabs hold
when the ladder is broken
when the streets cross you
when they launch the nukes
when they carve you up like a nutriloaf
when the author's use of the prison symbolizes _______
when your friends are little bits
when your spirit ascends to walmart
when the ghosts get all access passes
when you shake
when you pale
when you log out
when it all does one thing or the other

then, i don't know what
maybe go for a walk