Arriving in Your New Country

(By Mark Bibbins)

Wrong decisions are harder to make than most
people realize, tears flying sideways in a gale.

We swerve in the road so as not to hit dead things,

but I used to know someone who did the opposite.
He liked to drive through them. Stars are most

serious when seen from the back of a pickup truck

while very very drunk, and if someone kisses you
there it doesn't count. I would grab your sadness

as a movie monster would, bring it to the harshest

part of the mountain. I haven't seen this place yet
but I am told weeping is not part of its economy

and everything there is delicious if eaten alone.