Ossification

Weight-bearing exercise, calcium,

hormone supplements – alone or together –

are said to maintain mass, bone and muscle,

perhaps even being, indeed the density,

the protasis of now, the immediate, the functional,

as in the prosthesis of appended breast,

leg, or truth for getting by,

for prolonging belief in the carriage

of maybe a cherry-red Chevy,

its exhaust a vapor and the puff of …,

the diffusion of … ah, yes –

the minerals of a joy ride

into the firmamental blue,

space above space,

vacuity unto horizon,

distant and obscene.