So it is better not to store things in my back
and then move them to my brain because
coming in the side entrance in the ambulance
like that and not sticking around for pre-op,
they never get a good room. it takes me forever
to sort through the back-log of information
I bring in from that kind of field trip:

shelf after shelf of geodes and crystal
and lava and petrified trees,
and rooms of walls of drawers
of fossils I can't even think about
because I haven't the time
to give them identification numbers
or label them or make a list.