Tuesday, January 5, 2021

What Should Reality Be?

 a pork pie

 a corn dog 

A green blade

dryer summer Hay


Watering a new asphalt street

Pony and tony walk on the sidewalk by Main Street in this 85 year old, 3,000 person town. 

What do you know? Another 4th of July passes us by. tony plays a sax at night. Remilda sweeps and washes the floors of the 1000 square foot mostly brown rented house. Pony plays on the short curved street called Freemont.

The sunburnt mayor of your town parades his tux and tophat past the old pharmacy soda shop.

No one leaves before noon or December 31st.

The greenest tree leaves shine like hubric stars, waning for attention and our undying precise nowhereness, believing everything because 

We feel real, 10 items of clothing on our person

Reds, blues, pinks, deads, whites, scaries, and forget-me purplez. 

The dean of college age girls who deign and feign bagging groceries,

Ham. Tuna. Rice. Rolls. Steak. Ketchup. Paper towels. 

And varicose red vines

Dear Doctor

45 dollars an hour

The soup kid dies

The Asian population of 45 million

The 6 thousand mile border

tony and Pony walk to the corner store

Get an 8 ounce black coffee in a paper cup

And a half pound brick of cheddar

And walk back to the yellow light

Bulbs and rooms and beds and the warmest great aunt quilts

70 yards to the top of the graveyard

70 years and an astronomer's obituary 

Deal a label

Goodnight to Forever

I knew they were all of us

The End



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