like pocket change or costume jewelry,
as if checked and filed through,
to ensure no one had been stolen.
Imagine your legacy of crowns and
mercury floating as if an obstacle,
a poison, for fish and dolphins.
I am Jewish so burnt offerings will always
be interpreted as waste and consequences,
even when they are light and neon
bulbs the children try to turn off
during the religious lulls.
At the Pottery Barn, now for sale,
white candles with wavy yellow
thing-a-ma-jigs instead of wicks,
to echo the eternal.