WHO
WHO WILL PUT IT BACK THE WAY IT WAS?
Morning rituals: newspaper sport’s section 1st to see
Jewish obits Did you ever notice that fewer Jews die on
holidays? Take Passover for example a mere 3 Then 2
days after final matzoh fried 10 Jews die Maybe Yaweh
keeps them in a holding pattern pulls the plug on plug
pulling day quite randomly
Worship only impermanence if you want to leave here with
a shred of sanity Yesterday a 20 yr. old man in Thailand took
his 10 mth. old baby to an abandoned hotel There he hung her
+jumped out a window This reported in those little sidebars in
the newspaper The ones they use to jolt you out of your caffeine
induced preparedness to seize the day!
Why do they do this to us? Carl Jung counselled against reading
the news Ditto flying Both giving us the false sense that we have
risen above the fray the war the cancer Depressed Thai dads are
faraway You are untouchable up there in the clouds Where in the
blink of an eye you can put it back the way it was Then you land
with a thud +your Ativan-daze fades
The people who are the most hopeless know that even angels declare
bankruptcy +if you want to avoid a plane crash sit beside one of these
folks For stamped on their foreheads are the words: this one stays until
the bitter end When previously unbeknownst all debts are forgiven!
(As long as you never land)
Up there even the Thai dad is put back together again! In this poem a lyrical
thing all false hope +all false cheerfulness in the face of your fear is a recording
Hang up +try your call again Then punch the smug bastards in the nose +run
Or better yet flap
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songanddancegirl 