the marrow sunshine of desire that is the America dream
rain
clouds elongate the tides
to
the sky to ride the dust up high
and
then wait and watch
gravity
thin hesitation
to
begin a few light showers
and
then a deluge
in
warm southern breezes
we
ease into rubber
coated
everything
and
remark
how
wet it is out there
weather
conversation, spikes
near
all the depots
of
rusted mechanical yearn
every
capture of it
sold
in the general stores
and
taught as taut
thought
in the schools
I
am wired
for
sound with
the
brown-bean-cheap-cup-
of-joe-fed
ritual
we
are born into in America
I
find the ample fluidity
of
human soul harder to come by
this
world to me
it
seems, is almost stretched
beyond
capacity
but
on some level I think
we
must all know this
each time we lock eyes
with a stranger
are we not alive
in
the fired glimpses
of
passing glances
we
must, I think
understand
for that millisecond
that
we have a connectivity
to
a scatter frenzy
collective
consciousness
but
I might
just
be rambling
about
bliss being corner hawked
in
the black market raw reality
that
is the white cell vengeance
of
pyramid speculative capitalism
upon
the ancient soul of agrarian culture
while
I imagine all my infinities
in
the screen-shot-paint
of
the limitless sky-poems
that I
write for myself
that I graffiti onto
all
the brick and concrete facades
that
freedom doesn’t want me to see
as I live here
amidst all the disguises
that become
the American
dream sometimes
I wonder in fantasy
in
chalk figurines
that
if, all you can see
is
one small tree
is
it possible
that
you might not
ever
notice the entirety
of
the forest being cut down
for
instance, the Amazon
is
being mowed down
to
graze more farts on four legs
so
we can rapaciously eat
our
way to a juicy steak oblivion
or
the comfort cage
of
a hamburger and fries
I
myself, enjoy both of those
but
I am just saying
should
they be staples
that
have us praying
we
drink enough red wine
to
drive home hope
that
we survive our indulgences
being
behind the turning of the wheel
EJR
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