on the boat everybody was on dancing
there was two more people climbing each other
in a movie they were sitting down
and one person came up an punched them in the head and I
was wow I was overwhelmed and I felt it I did in my head
I felt it in my head feel the ground because my eyes were closed but
then I asked somebody what
they felt and they told me to pull my pants up
then laughed but I could not understand this boat because of all the bodies
in the cups that we all had one big one and it was metal
but then they made me go upside down to drink it I did not
understand why I love this so much and everybody was cheering I hate
who they are but they are there right then and we are not on a boat I am sorry
if I confused this with something else like a boat
it was in the shape of a boat that is what it was the shape like
how it looks like it keep you warm if it is over turned
a bottle and you can have to pull on all these things so that the enemies or whoever
the crew knows that you are a pirate
and I noticed while they were dancing this that I hadn’t
ever wanted to be sitting down while we were loud
whoever they felt they told me to pull my pants up and I was drinking
a bottle of water and saw inside of it this note that said something
and then I looked inside of it and I saw a ship in it
while everybody illegally fought dogs in the basement or people I was one
of them and I was did not want to be a pirate
so they hit me with the pipe
~~~
Angelo Maneage is a famous grocery clerk and 2017 recipient of the Academy of American Poets’ Alberta Turner Poetry Prize. He has work on Hobart, in Sprung Formal, coming to FIVE:2:ONE, and around other places. He is co-editor and founder of Long Long Journal and poetry editor for BARNHOUSE. He lives in Bedford, Ohio.