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Ghost Ship
Is Texas still burning? I won’t compare it to anything
until it stops In the meantime though
a bulwark of tradition and self- conscious enjoyment
abrades roughly What a bitch to be a group of tasters
to support producers of rare moments wherein all
burning ceases and gets compelled into diamonds
of a fallen sun blurting the end earnestly Someone said
It’s Easter
and we wanted to ask
So what
When does the kid
next door stop photographing cracks in the pavement
Look around When can we turn on the rest of world
in peace It’s not time to eat or commit identity theft
or pose as a wandering Social Security number
detached from the head that lately birthed a crop
of Californian grapes Yeah we exaggerate our state of affairs
but there’s increasing evidence that we’re really
headquartered there amid the planking and smoke
exiled fools afloat amid company so lonely we’re not
even insured to drift for ages without prognosis deprived
of our inalienable lab-perfect growing conditions
Posted 07/25/13
From BRINK (Bloof, 2013) but has not appeared in a magazine or journal.
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