BURN, from Ode to Seven
We tried to burn the town down
a stampede put it out
as an afterthought
right near the big circle
that drains into several
asphalt tributaries
Wood Canyon, Spring Canyon
Pearly Street-
We should have known
by the water marks
on the library walls
the flood couldn't take
it down neither,
a hundred some years before.
It just kept on melting.
Wow....amen.
1 comment:
The reason Seven is such a powerful poem is because it is heaven sent and is about the way the American Dream is melting.
It is a highly valuable poem, right up there with Hymn. No funny stuff either which is just another tyranny if you ask me when it is used to avoid the issues at hand.
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