Ode To MP3 Players

[jaw_me]

Ode To MP3 Players

and cheap chinese speakers

intoning soullessly 'bluetooth device

is connected successfully'

I realized that a song always smells

like the first place your ears caught it

burning. A song always smells like

the breath of someone else

and it's a kind of magic

isn't it? to lift a song in

and out of your back pocket

to slap it like a band-aid,

over an open wound, over broken glass

to taste it like fresh heartbreak

on a monday morning, like orange molasses

steeped too long in sunlight