from superlative land, alpha man
with a plan – best car,
best house, best small business,
best hardware, best software, best
industry, best family, and he’s
darned good looking, too – when
you’re at the peak, where
do you go from there?
hire others to participate in
your joy and smoke cigars

the hard part, staying in
touch over a lifetime marked
by weird experiences, speaking only
in adversity, writing only occasional
brief email – the easy part,
admiring you from the opposite
coast, your (scary) competence and
certainties, the vastness of your
earthly capabilities, a nurse with
bloody knowledge of life’s wounds