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An American Nature Poem

28 December 2009 75 views No Comment

Come on, its just your opinion
the TV disagrees with—do you know how
human beings disappear? I hear
silence in the pause of a trash truck
backing up, when the hairdryer’s blown a fuse.
This program may contain some violent content.
Natural mango body butter–
it’s new, I just picked it up from the store.
Lean in closer, you’re my brother
so I want you to know
statistics show that there’s not much
hope—what is that buzzing?
The microwave radiating–
it would be nice to do something so well.
Yesterday, through the window I saw
the most beautiful thing—balloons tied to the
neighbor’s mailbox. The yellow of thick paint,
a rare raw stalk of green, black like a sore
before blue. The world’s termites outweigh
the world’s humans ten to one.
Can you picture it?

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