need

by judih

Posted to Poetry on 2001-09-01 19:24:00

Parent message is 27959
needs to be said
yelled, screamed
from day to day
generation to generation
never stop
pinching ourselves awake

Wake up!
shoulder patting
starts to wear out epaulettes
Shiny buttons tend to blind
our vision

We are all on the road
There’s no last row
in the balcony of responsibility

America? i cry, weep, laugh
that i claim you as my mother
i pace empty corridors
waiting for an appointment
with rationality
but still i wait

when i get my answer,
i’ll be free to send you roses
til then, it’s cactus juice
and yabba dabba highways