On Hearing Congress Has Declared October Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month

Stalled on I-94 outside Bismarck,I laugh at the AM-station news announcementthat thirty-one days have been dedicatedto the total dysfunction of the human heart.Indian Summer. What better time to praise the mysteryof the Ford Focus's transmission, the wind thrashinggrit in my eyes, piles of bison shit hardeningon the highway, Coke cans lodged in tufts of prairie grass(how long they last out here through so much weather).

Season of Hangovers and Infinite Bliss.When You Die You Stay Dead a Long TimeAwareness Month. Month of Breaking Downwith a Full Tank in East-Fuck North Dakotawhere herds of blackbuck inquire over the sageas the sky flashes and dims, flashesand dims, nimbostratus pulsing in hugeswells overhead, starting to tap on the hoodand make the asphalt hiss, hemorrhaging rain.