The slew of unholy ruffians that curtail governance can’t stand on its own two feet. We’ve fed the lion too much. Nothing that grows or breathes will find everlasting bliss. Brazen and loutish, with tongues flapping in a stiff wind, revisionist jokers bloviate. An inebriated buckaroo dances high up on a girder. Those new species generated from the storm surge expedited to center stage. Minds oscillate. Expired lessons are stored in missing vaults. Continual rain floods farms as chickens get swept away in creeks. Planets cascade down all around us going ballistic. Tinkerbell, Popeye, Athena, and Shakespeare head a parade, goose-stepping before hysterical gorillas. Emotions waver. Survival gets riskier each minute. Radiators overheat. Anthracite statues of the aliens remind us of a more enlightened epoch. Streaming from consciousness did electronic tentacles attack. His ugly face in the crowd shamefully gets booed. The reticent ghost pales. This amplified rhinoceros tramples virgin tomato fields. Residual doubts just add up to the hole in a donut. The lonely conscript goes to war soiling his otherwise clean reputation. When the plot thickens it is eligible for last rights. Don’t allow love to suck you down into its vortex said the blue toad after swallowing his saxophone. Afterlife is won by the top bidder who’s flat broke. Yesterday it seemed so certain, but now forgotten. There was a trolley that ran down Central Avenue which carried centipedes, ants, cheetahs and steers to a land promised by volcanic gods. The fourteen musicians awakened from suspended animation do much to raise our spirits. Extensive notes are taken by investigators of pink worlds. Humans immersed in evolution. We highly encourage kissing inmates. All art is delivered unto an ever expanding cosmos. Our big chance arrived once the dawn split in half.
Thomas Piekarski is a former editor of the California State Poetry Quarterly. His poetry has appeared in such publications as The Journal, Poetry Salzburg, Modern Literature, The Museum of Americana, South African Literary Journal, and Home Planet News. His books of poetry are Ballad of Billy the Kid, Monterey Bay Adventures, Mercurial World, and Aurora California.
