For Albert Goldbarth & Margarita Robles Are you going to steal lines collect manual typewriters 8 miles high the serotonin Albert Goldbarth mentions the sugary night the howling speeding most of all are you going to hobble here— time travel? a possible future burns your dolphin karma forking out 500 lives from now Whitman in piyamas spotted leopard-like piercing the unavoidable Void the obsessed B-B-Q where we swoop Ersatz Mojo Bruja Hoodoo scribble it is popping Hendrix in your head it is Joplin & Flor Silvestre & Rosetta Tharpe & Itzpapalotl do you know how awake you are Noble 8 Fold Path too dark too lightning the visualization is next the Ukrainian purge the intercontinental money money O Tsunami where is my crystal realized selfie O my love my next Warhol dream in revolution rouge & where is my electric emerald wand rain Vajra roll the ink & fire stones unfold the third eyes the ten million arms of Tara & Einstein of compassion of mercy of nebula rails come alive jellyfish flags i bow to you jellyfish world wheel of swish & suffering
Copyright © 2014 by Juan Felipe Herrera. Used with permission of the author. This poem appeared in Poem-A-Day on March 11, 2014. Browse the Poem-A-Day archive.