1 am weather reports from the marlboro man


the wind is blowing from west to east tonight
as seen from the porch
that view to a sill.
crazy jane's smokestack showed me so.
crazy jane,
the prototypical nosy neighbor,
she called the gas company to my home once
-it was the height of summer-
she thought she smelled an odor.
the odor,
it turns out,
was a neighboring gas grill
loaded with steaks.

its not summer right now,
its the ass end of february.
crazy jane is most likely
dreaming crazy dreams.
the moon is perfectly halved
and burns bright the color of winter.
its 22 degrees here on the porch
with an unlimited ceiling.
the wind is blowing 5 to 15 miles per hour
traveling from left to right.
the burning cigarette thrown from the porch
showed me so.