Oxygen Destroyer

Today is a good day to 
drop out of sight.  Disappear 
like fish from Tokyo harbor.  

Realize there’s no place for you 
among the living, even if the gifted 
will always remember your name.  

Spend the morning watching movies that never run on TCM. 
Convince yourself there is no one you know watching the uncut 
1954 Japanese language version of Gojira right now but you.  

Serizawa on the ocean floor, air hose 
in one hand, knife in the other.  Ogata, 
rising to the surface, screaming his name.  

Goddammit, Serizawa.  

Is this how friends find 
each other, too late? 



(Godzilla, to the uninitiated)