~this is the end~
~beautiful friend
~the end~
~this is the end~
~my only friend~
~the end~
~of our elab’rate plans~
~the end~
~of ev’rything that stands
~the end~
~no safety or surprise~
~the end~
~I'll never look into your eyes again~
~James Douglas Morrison~
~midnight 31 December~
~the final click~
~on the citizen time-clock~
~marking the year 2011~
~a young man in Colorado~
~stared into the internet tunnel~
~the only light in his room~
~watching & listening~
~to apocalyptic doomsday~
~wizards & witches~
~the electronic medium~
~he erased the badgering rhetoric~
~from his mind-space~
~posted the words of the poet~
~James Douglas Morrison~
~to his Face Book page~
~closed his eyes & went to sleep~
~fourteen hundred miles away~
~in a place named California~
~& unbeknownst to him~
~the young man’s father~
~practiced the precise steps~
~of the ritual~
~word for word~
~these poets share a~
~familiar rain~
~earth creatures~
~ghosts & men~
~stand down for this one~
~whose memories are shadows~
~wispy glimpses of that which~
~has not yet occurred~
~sacred guardian of the afterlife~
~ruler of the night~
~keeper of spirits transitioning~
~from one plane of existence~
~to another~
~brother owl watches children~
~brown in the sun~
~laughing & running through~
~pale lavender/deep violet~
~fields of alfalfa~
~a spool of string between them~
~trailing high into the sky~
~brother owl knows what children know~
~the bones of the kite where the string is tied~
~are not its beginning or end~
~nor is the spool spinning in their hands~
~they are creatures of moment~
~children~
~ecstatic & so caught up living~
~its delicious bits are all~
~that cannot end has not begun~
{continued}
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~he wears dentures~
~his feet hurt~
~refuses invasive surgery~
~to replace his parts~
~ghost clouds in his eyes~
~pequot~
~the dog is rascally~
~out of sorts~
~makes him wish~
~he had two bullets~
~tossed overboard~
~fish dreams~
~pitch a bitch~
~tiny breeze~
~fringe on her hat~
~eyelashes~
~internet~
~router~
~half-hitch knot~
~smiling dog~
~air conditioner~
~hat trick~
~coffee cup~
~bubbling brook~
~jelly beans~
~ostriches~
~a sailor’s death~
~land ho!~
~two bugs dining~
~one on one~
~one bug~
~caterpillar~
~winged fishes~
~sailing~
~herds~
~wal~mart~
~campout
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