Good Ghostmanship

for John Prine

”It’s as though you really had

secrets. One secret. That you go in there

on the assumption the other guy

is the one who’s going to get it

And you find out,

you did. You look

at yourself in the mirror

The mirror

is a civil war”

— Charles Olson

A CAVEAT: This poem is both based on and inspired by a true dream