Sunday, July 10, 2022

C A Conrad

CAConrad


 coping skills lost in the flood

                   make you aching upwards of a
                             teenage broken phone
                           come to hear underwater
                                libraries up the side of
                                        the dinner plate a
                                        little too fast
                                          not ungrateful like
            some of  these bastards around here
can’t tap out a tune with you looking away
                      genies of not enough sleep
                               a happier location for
                                        the war not the
                       easiest thing you realize
                          beautiful architecture
                          refreshing beverages 
       our signs read hello love us for
                                  the century of 
                                  progress we
                                      gave you
                                        bombers
                                          arriving
                                    early here
                                  they are

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