mourning
what used to eat me for breakfast
in
the cold air
October
is coming through September
baring
the loss of Summer well
Demeter
is carrying spades
slung
over her shoulders
like
well drawn threshed grains
seeding
the ways the womb pays
for
our humanity despite
being
inhumane to our divinity
in
America we sew stone faces
onto
a wooden cross
with
our cost of being
apocalyptic
revolutionaries
turned
to rear view mirror danglies
with
scare tactic bumper stickers
peacefully
applied in universal fonts
that
only incite riots on receipts
of
the cheap we run with
in
the thinning herds
of
horded toilet paper
and
other dry goods
that
hold odd behavior in contempt
while
lock stepping the two dimensional savor
of
savior-ing our conformity of numb
fuck
the hypocrisy of the American family
we
are Margaret Mead nuclear zombies
paraded
from wall street to main street
and
all the dirty sheets in cul-de-sacs
between
what I used to think
of
as life completed
empty
of the simplest of pleasures
when
I did acid for the first time
I
realized my own family abandoned me
and
knew they would repeat the cycle
with
my own children because of me
I
mean they have excuses
leaning
between time constraints
and
the haints of the emotional baggage
they
carry on their crusades for normalcy
sure
I am not an easily discerned man
but
I know I am a loving man
beyond
repair with a heart and soul
leaking
what blooms inside me
like
a sieve trying to hold the sea
inside
each moment that captures me
my
certainty is my faith in the tides
and
its carves of time
it
gets me back to the water everyday
even
if just to say I love you
with
my smile in the Dawn
reflected
back at me
EJR
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Stunning. Thought-provoking. As usual.
ReplyDeletedamn....you rocked this....whew....the bumper sticker slogans wont save anything if we dont put something behind them...nice inclusion of margaret mead....ha...zombies....oy...ripper of a poem man...
ReplyDeleteThe last stanza is just gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteI always like your work.
ReplyDelete"the womb pays
for our humanity despite
being inhumane to our divinity"
whew...so impressive.