the park
changes ,for a flicker,to black and white,the grass is not longer green but a whiter
shade of pale

"you can do better than that beanbag,"Evan graphs,
the park chisels apart into squares of brighter green
and sews itself together like 10,000 Polaroid photographs
the park
the man
even the opened soda
more vivid more real than
a thought ago
i'd like to tell Cole
that it gets better
that this is just some breaking in
but it doesn't work that way
you either get to the next part


or
you don't

let me give you a stand