Hypotheticals

what’s the harm in
letting your toes wriggle
away from your shoes
& over the sudden edge
of a waterfall? painting
the town not in red but
in earth tones? saying no?
baking a cake with a boom-
erang in it? calling on pigs
to self-sacrifice for the greater
hood? skipping school
to play never have I never
with a garden gnome? Using
the singular they? sprinting
top speed toward a mountain
of marshmallows? rocking out
to the Pledge of Allegiance
on your knees? polishing
off a unicorn’s horn with a nice
Chardonnay? burning bridges
& buildings & monuments to
all manner of gods? Raising
a glass or a fist in the air, to
toast it all falling down? our
raging? our roar? your fear?