The police helicopter cut donut holes
through the clouds

you pressed your toes between
cotton sheets

and hacked into your childhood memories.
As you drifted off

the voice of a narrator passed through
a distant loud speaker,

he spoke in all run-on sentences, the lingo could
only be recognized

by those who studied popular television sitcoms
of the 1970′s.

Previously published in canwehaveourballback?.

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Noah Falck is the author of Snowmen Losing Weight (BatCat Press, 2012). In addition to three chapbooks, recent work has appeared in journals such as Boston Review, H_NGM_N [pdf], Sink Review, and Fact-Simile. He works as the Education Director at Just Buffalo Literary Center. He makes his home in Buffalo, New York. Noah’s “Boss Crashes the Party” and “from Life As A Crossword Puzzle 5. Across” are also in Reprint.

Object(s) to bring back to life: “I would bring back lemonade stands. In the traditional sense. Not the lemonade stands currently featured on corporate commercials. Lemonade stands that manufacture a kind of lemonade that doesn’t really taste like lemonade, where there is either way too much water or way too much sugar. Lemonade stands where there is a high overturn of nickels & dimes and an overwhelming enthusiasm for the process of it all.”