My Daughter Weighs Fourteen Thousand Grams

We share stories

of our father’s prostates

wonder will it be us next

order more beer

one day the chemo will take 

our taste buds; we hug 

goodnight

little altar crosses

on the side of the road

monuments eroded hope

that we’ll know when to go, magical

thinking of souls dancing

in glows of sulfur 

Juice WRLD on the radio

a diamond in the back

Fourteen thousand grams of pure

her, who doesn’t know death

her, except the night we found 

a june bug ass down, legs up

long given up—  crunch!

to the land

of wind and hungry ghosts