Detached

outside the building
between breaks
smoking that pipe

chewing that pipe
.........................stem.

“The thing is made of bowling balls.

Bowling balls!” you said.

A stem carved from the thing
of
throwing!
rolling!
oiling
gutters
beer and cigarettes
cheesy fries
strike!
spare
blow dried fingers

You chewed through that stem
in two months:

a ball with two eyes and an even bigger mouth
looking back at the
bowler
........his right foot
........sliding gracefully behind the other
and then frozen
breath held
eyes narrowed

on the path of destruction.