gyrmination

Katrina was bad.
Swished around New Orleans like a gold prospector
panning for gleaming nuggets.
Only unearthed something real ugly.
Instead of ugliness, now,
we’d prefer to be faced with the banal.
Hurricane fever, you might call it.
Suddenly!
battered-looking reporters
gushing first impressions, concern heavy in their voices,
are starting to seem a lot like heroes.
Which hurricane will be next?
How will the government respond?
Fearsome […]

What I need to relieve my dry
eyes is a good cry.
Tell me I’ve not grown those
years I was gone.
Reduce me to your greatest
vision of me:
Obedient automaton.
(孩子不是人。)
Incapable by design to see the
flaws of a hypocritical maker.
In whose image.
To whose image
one shouldn’t compare.
We are all dreams biding fulfillment
or demise at the hands of
those who love us most.
Love […]

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