artists battle wasps
for their espresso outside
in the thorn garden
under bright bill-boards
gray men with missing legs beg,
unknown yankee dregs
New Yorkers await
9-11's tenth tense year:
possible fire-works
the Prozac Atlas
holds up a sky of black clouds
as our tears rain down
flame dragon-flies
zoom to devour mosquitoes
from elephant hide
beside rainbow road
gold grows on thin stalks of green;
dream-men walk between
one more war winds down,
mammoth shells soaring over
ears new deaf to sound
new ideals proclaimed
brave and luckless souls martyred,
a change of statues
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