Butalbital Versus Narcotic

In the belly of squirrels

When she was little
she often asked me where were going nuts

Once the squirrel had swallowed

It was long believed

they disappeared and the stomach was a squirrel
universe

an enormous black hole or some kind of Bermuda Triangle

So that 'at some point I

been obliged to tell him that it was nuts

like love stories
and once they were made

in our bellies
they ended

simply by forgotten