Lauren Gives Me Directions
“Make a left at the second park,
Because you will come across two parks;
The first one is smaller, and there’s a little courtyard in the middle
With an old fountain, inlaid with a bird – a dove, I think –
A friend of mine once told me the future
Is authenticity, there, while I was crying,
But you must pass that one and turn left
At the end of the larger, uglier one.
“You will pass a shop, called only ‘J.P.,’
That sells the most beautiful scarves, in any season;
