GRAND FORKS

Granted, it's quiet, being just inside-
No. Outside the U.S. North Dakota
stretches thought. Friendless. Past the land called "bad".
This slow prairie is home to a strata
of noble laggards, lookers on. Uff-da.

Being here is watching intramurals.
WATCHING them. America's bleachers. Sit.
I miss being involved, invisible.
I miss America, sound, feeling fat.
I hate this squelch of verbs, this life pulled taut.