[everyone asks for the you they remember]
everyone asks for the you they remember
I wish for no new way to feel alone again
America is
the wrong angel
a classic wristwatch
on the arm of a man who
thinks he owns himself
back to the borrowed
amount of living
here is a rough sketch of what
we look like inside when mortality
distracts us from how we destroy the world
I draw Odin’s ravens
under the shelf of
teapots in the
department
store
may the tea bring us strength
may wings lift us to revolution
Credit
From While Standing in Line for Death (Wave Books, 2017). Copyright © 2017 by CAConrad. Used with permission of the author and Wave Books.
Author
CAConrad
CAConrad, the author of numerous collections of poetry, is known for their development of (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals.
Date Published
10/02/2017