coping skills lost in the flood
By CAConrad
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
Source: Poetry (October 2013)