Posts tagged recession

poem: sixth (smile)

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SIXTH

subdue

hissssteria of those troublesome female mass es
 eased with antihisteriamines         let’s get fiscal:
  and pass       the deep congress ional act
   she said do we need protectionism?
    seminal      cash injections leave a mess
     on both your economy and mine
      pre servativ o ur values are not gd
       truncated that growth stimulus package easily
        feeling the explosion        of that cap italicism
         s crunch the fabric     and col lapse into
          the  arms of     the latest word isms


An old poem from a year ago

No cream

the scene is a slow beat
my fingers a dull grey –
a cigarette sits between them
and the kettle is volcanic.

No cream.

Day time is short and the anxious crowd
grows sharp as the phone
is mute as the sky
shrinks

into the silt
into waters they’ll never feel