James Ensor, "Skeletons Fighting over the Body of a Hanged Man" (1891)

9 am mimosa

buoyed sour

stomach acid

pouring over

on a red eye

into massive

coronary i'm

a bull's balls

at a rodeo

drinking from

a broken glass

someone told me

go to spain

for the beaches

and the living

i would rather

live in sweden

in the summer

longer days

Leonard Morrison. Columbia Poetry Review, no. 32, Spring 2019. Chicago: Columbia College Chicago.