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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Carving Up the Ozone

Palm leaves flapping in the wind
like Neptune’s trenchcoat
on the bluff at sunset

a looped & windowed raggedness prevails

glowing in the dark
like a radioactive ’64 Chevy Malibu
w/a dead alien in the trunk            (Repo Man, 1984)

            as we seem destined to
                        occupy smoke rings
                                    that drift up into the
            Martian prayer flags
                        hanging among the fly-strips
                                    out on the porch

another prerequisite for a salvation we
never signed up for
            which I took to mean the prototype
                        tilted in the mist
                                    above the beach

bouncing quarters off the dark
incoming tide