3.15.2011

Lines Composed Over the American Midwest

I do so desperately inquire

on the nature of this desire

to defang an airline transmission

with my music-box imposition.


I shall watch the plane burst into flames,

curling around the check-in desk names,

as the rhythm goes unabated

into foreign skies inundated.


And we will crash into the ocean

as the melody's soothing lotion

moistens the skin of old men asleep

with their battle scar secrets to keep.


No land will cushion the plastic seat

or the metal bar laid down for feet.

No God will sweep His heavenly hand

down to cradle us over His land,


He'll let us plummet to the abyss

where the wet bodies of our sins kiss

every forehead with a savage grace

and sweetly, softly, our fingers lace.

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