tizzy

compose the Disappointment
Symphony or, Disillusion
Études in Varied Voice

world too large to balance
in bifurcated concept
not either-or anymore

too many boulders
and land mines and oh,
what weather

don’t listen to speeches
politicians’ generic smiles
glisten

it’s a first come first serve
narrative with all the jobless boys
lined up

we have to art
our way through
with deep chords

the only
resistance left
sound wave

Consumerism

we echo like some awful
remake poorly filtered
cross our arms and look
down on the trendy
grimace of the ten
year old as he confronts
his empty wishing well
full of cell phone fantasy
and late night swims
hidden in the dark
a place our aging
hearts rarely venture
that death place
that earliest fall