Wyatt Sparks – "Friday"

from The Stuff Left in Parking Lots by 90s Meg Ryan

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lyrics

FRIDAY

reading
went well
Lana did
good too
her friend
was blonde
and cute
and maybe
thirty.
We went
to Whirlaways
the name
of a horse
I only half
knew Frankie
and none
of the other
people we
went with.

GiILLIAN
came too
for
four hours
we talked
I sort
of stood
between
her knees
& there were
other people
obviously
but in
my mind
so many
sweet things
happened.

SAM
told me
Mcsweeney’s
solicited
but then
didn’t take
his piece
after all
his only
option now
he told me
was to write
something
bigger
and lay it
in his
right desk
drawer with a note
he could
finally
kill himself
&
get famous.

NADIV
didn’t have
his passport
he had to
stand outside
while we tried
to get
everyone
Israelis
to this
pinball bar
down the block.
He had
no one
to stand with
so I went
outside
was cold
we were both
freezing our asses
Nadiv said
Wyatt
are you in love?
It looks
like
I crept
up into
my old lines
when I was
drinking
I would
bang my
hands down
and say
I have
a blackness
inside of
a heart
instead of
a heart or
one all
bleak
& juiced
when it wasn’t
right, true
then I was in
love, which
would pass
and regroup
and so forth
and so on
as it does
but I
should have
said something
different I think
or think
that now
that is.
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WYATT SPARKS lives in Chicago and is the author of Second Man On The Moon (Nap, 2013) and As We All Change (Love Symbol Press, 2013).
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Moondog is the music behind the poem.