"Minor Things" or "Nantucket"

Let's start with a nod to the irrational numbers
followed briefly by what we consider imaginary
and who could forget the fractals
by which Star Wars is possible
that teenage ship-launcher
like mine, Times Square, eighteen
at B. B. King's
the guy who bought me the first bar shot
meeting Magner in the crowd like a smoke monster
that one guy with the backpack with the acid
the myth he was until you found him
and train-ride home through the laughing gas of youth
how youth ends at drug use
how drugs make Plato credible
and Boltzmann, Morrison (who I hate), Coyne, and the current anorexic music slump
and Timothy Leary
who JFK Jr. summered with
great plane crasher, great Payne Stewart figure
great vicarious sadnesses
a depressed father driving through Massachusetts
the lesson on the "Texas Wedge"
how small and awful this island really is
how these are the poems your father would like if you shared yourself
but if you shared yourself
but if you shared yourself
but if you shared yourself