Thursday, November 11, 2010

This is the End



there is plastic
in my lungs I'm sure
along with tar and blackened newspaper clippings
mingling with the mucus
forming something not quite solid

I have my doubts about chopped-up writing
the spoken word on TV screens
prose about precaution, chanting
"There is a war someone's backyard
and alligators creeping through the sewers
ten tips to stay alive..."
some people die
when they think they're dead

The world only goes round by misunderstanding- Charles Baudelaire