Thursday, July 9, 2015

Out of Place, by Amory McKeever




Where are my starry campfire skies
Replaced by coca-cola lights 
Olympians say shut up and buy 
A plasma screen is worth the fight 
Beast versus beast in a Walmart line 
The last elusive hunt for time 
Where indeed are my carrier pigeons 
This handheld device feels so cold 
Every one of these electric widgets 
Sends my words in Sans-serif bold 
Yet the meaning is lost along the way 
The frontier has been uprooted 
Where's my covered wagon train 
When dirty jeans were suitably suited 
No Amber waves on my FaceTime 
Just purple mountain grown chi tea 
Ninety-nine years cut down in my prime 
They can't prescribe a life for me 
While I assure my friends I'm fine 
I scatter to the wind a tumbleweed

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