Rain today and tomorrow. Some wind now. I don't mind rain or the raggedy yard. I'm making peace with the hole in the roof until the rain ends and the roof is repaired. My ankle is healing, though my hip still aches from stepping in the sump pit, especially during the wetter winds.
Like today.
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Was a time I'd make myself see
the positive – that maybe
our capacity to learn will overtake
our need to make the world burn –
that we can rebuild out of these ashes
some ( ) thing.
***
Looks more like a rerun than a reboot
I'm still a fugitive from too many apocalypses. Burning oil fields and floods and mountains on fire. Swine Flu. SARS. MERSA. West Nile carrying mosquitoes.
The first End Times galloped after me when I was four, tried to choke me in the night. The world was burning then, too. And it has been trying to kill me ever since.
***
It's difficult to tell whether the marketing campaign failed because the consuming public never accepted the death of the Kennedy Brothers. Or something deeper. Something more congenital. Something bred in the bones that, as the Bard says, must will out in the flesh.
***
Pale fuzzy globs born to be men but too fragile and sugar-based schlep and schmooze through the streets, dinosaur death reenactors, trying to conjure that hobble into being yet again, with new cheap packaging wrapped around the the same necrotic flesh.
***
Blame Nixon Blame LBJ
Blame Hoover Blame the bomb
The true accounting won't make the final report
and what remains will be illegible
until unborn readers learn
the language scribbled
on bone dust.
***
Now's no time to retreat
to some fabricated notion of civility –
some Eisenhower inspired dream carried
forward by forgetful bureaucrats
who still copy Nixon on rain-soaked memos
and send them to the capitol of Arkansas.
