Lightkick! 2

Jamming was ok with whoop and smelly
projectiles in the special ops dinner jacket—

Twas the night before we killed the lights
and plutonium yelped from the depths of yawp

And our grandpas stunk the place to high
stock options in bull market spectaculars—

Heaven, “where my bing-bongs at?” they scowl, closing out
the paygap with a wink, photoshopping lawsuit teeth!

You must know that winter is the strain
on greenhouse benefits—that shared and lackadaisical

Heart of the writer’s soul—it is her
Spring, sprung and forever longing

If it takes all day I will catch you ratface
sniffer of opportunistic chords, a catchcry riff

Love has penetrated the nation-company’s grip on taste,
to let statues rise when they should topple

(Petrol state in wet sludge runoff)
Hail sunshine brigades of light sword rockers

To tamper with permissions in script doctors’
roost-rules, elisions in the celluloid simulacra—

love us, love us first, love us furious.

Source: Poetry (March 2020)