Head pounding hoping

serendipity returns

equal to the ache

News reports remain

an insufferable catalog

of monosyllables

Where is the Advil?

We need an antidote

for this caravan of nonsense

The sun is out

somewhere a sea is

growing the tide high

and sardines small

Yes, sardines

they’re in the ocean

before the can

loitering on a Kroger shelf

What a long voyage

from the Atlantic to west Tennessee

by car, about 11 hours

by can, who knows