"what bothers me most
is that somewhere, someone is
happy about this."
--- Eryk Salvaggio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> A nation of highways,
> of train tracks, of
> naive mythologies
> if any mythology
> at all.
>
> A simple kind of yarn
> that involved no gods:
> A giant blue ox,
> Johnny Appleseed,
> a man who beats a train
> before he collapses.
> Cherry trees, wooden teeth,
> speeches on paper bags,
> The fish, so big, that got away.
>
> Paul Bunyon couldn't save us.
>
> Now we have beasts.
> Giant Twins and pentagons.
> Silver birds breathing fire
> with the names of their victims:
> United. American.
>
> States?
>
> Crashing on themselves
> or maintaining altitude:
> A dying wind
> in soot stained trees.
>
> It is not only the sadness
> in our voices as we read them.
> Something in our stories
> will be changing.
>
> -e.
>
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