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Day 5


dr_con

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Waiting for Paradise
Con/Jur/d, 4/5/2024

Spring is heavy today
a dusting of snow
we’ll mow the lawn later

The birds are calling in dreams of sex
drugs, rock & roll, with a smattering of punk

techno, psytrance, goa, triphop, jazz and
                                                    elevator
                                                         music

We argue with the city about physics
what constitutes a slope, which direction water
                                                                  flows

and who’s responsible for the early buds and
where the leaves of Fall, fall

                          down
                              down
                          down

                           How can this be true? Children
                           are murdered without consequence
                           our neighbors believe in outsourcing
                           their pain to a returning messiah, coming back,

                                                                                  any day now,
                           foaming with bibliomancy, powered by fumes
                           a dream of astroturf and plastic flowers blooming

ALL SEASON      ALL INCLUSIVE  ALL YOU CAN EAT ALL WE CAN DRINK
   ENDLESSLY-- ENTERTAINING--DESIRE--WITHOUT--CONSEQUENCE
                           
hanging out forever, with the same people who
made you this                                                     way


Watching snowflakes swirl
above the greened grass
listening to a low flying plane
uneasy with what it portends

Trying to remember paradise is

HERE                              NOW

or never.

 

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