PIECES
LITTLE PIECES OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
FLOATING AROUND FOR 4.5 BILLION YEARS
Have you ever seen the full majesty of flaming
comet dust? Tonight the Perseid meteor shower
debris trail of the Swift-Tuttle comet will be burning
up in brilliant streaks of light
I saw one the other night over the Chocolate factory
gentrification of Massey-Ferguson industry in cripplingly
hip Arts+Design district I wondered if it was a divine sign:
GO WEST! Finish the aborted vision quest begun 30 yrs.
ago in San Francisco
When one’s heart had way less dark goo pooling inside young
arteries A cardiologist from Princeton claims that my rotting
cells akin to blackened shrunken apples shown in the sidebar
of his infomercial are crying out for avocados olive oil + a new
religion
Materialism +a North American diet of donuts (Glory Hole down the
street makes the best Creme Me Ups you’ve ever seen) has rendered
me heartless +ready to believe in Hillary Unless she is assassinated
by the 2nd Amendment people
Yet in the midst of this anomie I earnestly applaud Jeni Stepien who
walked down the aisle with her father’s heart transplanted into Art
Thomas who gave her away Her father Michael was shot on his way
home from work in a teenaged armed robbery My own father’s heart
sits in a jar on my shelf Enlarged by wanderlust +entropy he was not
a candidate for transplant surgery
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Jeni Stepien + Art Thomas dance at her wedding
Summer 2016
..in the pre-dawm hours of Friday Aug. 12th there will be
200 meteors a minute..
songanddancegirl 