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Old 13th May 2013, 03:14 PM   #108
blobru
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Originally Posted by calebprime View Post
... Opening the Window.
blobru likes it a lot...

the clear pane frames the question:
what is the future of sympathy?

kalimba safaris follow xylophone antelopes and
five timely breezes through tin pan alley mid
timid bulls wading china shops tamely as
pupils dilating at matadors mating
with philanthropist nudes bored
stiff bit actors painting still
lifes of lattes
may storms invading
gazelle lightning silhouettes
leaping balletically in a heat pink twilight
go viral with thumb-texted caresses xoxo

is it the echoes of sound barriers broken
or the rockets of armageddon
raining down on my suburban
boston shelter
lost in
the distant roar of the one great ocean
or monday morning workgangs laying sewer pipe?

conspiracies abound
roughly rounded-up theories congregate for lunch
phones the size of coffee spoons
rattle on and rattle off abstractedly
the world has been diagnosed
to everyone's relief
birds return to their business
extracting worms from the spit earth cracks in sidewalk 6A-elm

a black man it sounds like sells ice cream to an asian liberally
sprinkled with licorice jujubes
the ice cream not the asian
not that it matters all that much except to him i guess
because it doesn't really matter you know
but you knew that already
the off-whites and semi-hispanics are playing baseball
with sticks and stones and names
and babies crying in rush hour traffic homecoming again
i hear a home run
somebody cheering
distant roars and whispers
barriers broken
peace at last
please

tonight
i am a mestizo
and the sold and the soul of the world
feels almost right
enough
to be
opening
the window:
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