It's Too Late To Be Careful
By CAConrad
melting glaciers
frighten me when
appearing on
my street as
downpours
a feeling I send
ahead of myself to one
day walk inside
people sleep while I inspect their
flowers
not as
weird as
you think
I dreamt gays were
allowed in the military
isn't it great everyone said
what a nightmare I said
killing babies is less
threatening with a politically
correct militia
vices for the vice box
for
wards of the
forward state
who like different
things to kill alike
we CANNOT occupy Wall Street but
we CAN occupy Kabul
massage our
anger with a heart chakra green
blessings soaked into bedsheets
there's a way of
looking into
time for a poem
send it into the future
your footprint has
grown small what is
wrong with your footing?
what kind of American
are you? just buy it or
steal it but shut up
this poem is terrific for
the economy
the rich have
always tasted
like chicken
I'm not a
cannibal because
they're not
my kind
we CANNOT occupy Philadelphia but
we CAN occupy Baghdad
we're the kind of poets
Plato exiled from the city limits
FUCK Plato that
paranoid faggot
Don't Ask, Don't Tell?
HOW ABOUT
Don't Kill and say whatever you WANT!!
for instance
when I adopt a cat
I will name him Genet
"Genet! GENET!" I practice
calling Genet
INTO my LIFE!
when you purchase
a car the factory's
pollution is
100% free
it's never easy
waking to this
bacteria and light
mucus and bone
a legacy of stardust
it is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit inside all
humans
the freshly
murdered
their murderers
and the rest of
us between
m father lived to
see the fast-forward to
the cum shot
technology's
authentic
application
we CANNOT occupy Oakland but
the ghosts will occupy us
I will stay and
watch our
phoenix rise
I believe
in us
Copyright Credit: CA Conrad, "It's Too Late for Careful" from ecodeviance: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness. Copyright © 2014 by CA Conrad. Reprinted by permission of Wave Books.
Source: ecodeviance: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness (Wave Books, 2014)