Monday, June 3, 2019

Thr Realm of Possibility


The hills go blind and can’t see you climbing.
The crows congregate to form a chorus line.
Redwoods take over the Beach at Malibu.
Apple pies surf ocean waves on a windy day.

Butter knives revolt stabbing at shelless turtles’
eyes. Jesus refuses a curtain call as hands of the
audience clap themselves to death. It is a cruel
world of distorted imagery in which we live—

where infants swaddled in burkas are never
changed; where Orange Juliuses lick a poor
man’s face; where the wealthy are dissected
in a gathering of flee-infested koalas; as Detroit

is dismantled brick by brick and transported by
by train to Kiev, Ukraine. Oh, wait, there’s more...
Muscle-bound maggots lift 10-times their weight
at the Insect Olympics; Mitch McConnell and

William Barr are canonised as living saints by
Pope Donald Trump at the Iowa State Fair;
promises are kept as a squadron of pigs in turn
take to flight from LAX. What else to do but

ponder all the nightmare possibilities on an
unrelenting restless night? And, but for the
grace of God, you and I may have been forced
to attended the halo-crowning coronation.

Chris Hanch 6-2-19


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