poem of the day 11.03.14

human resilience

and the fine art of privacy

there is so much love gone wrong

on these trains

on these streets

on any given day of the week

there is a different drama being played out

some bad actor crying into her cell phone

some pouty boy shouting into his

so much love gone wrong

and played out in the public sphere

human resilience

and the fine art of privacy

being taken over by impulse and need

you see them screaming at stop lights

or shouting down the aisle in the grocery store

relationships ending between

the frozen foods and the processed meats

between tire rotations

or in line at the DMV

so many of us willing to bear ourselves

so nakedly out there

the thin line between cell phone love and hate

available for public consumption

as if we are the only ones within

one hundred miles of each other

creating and destroying

our own little universes

crowding out and contaminating

the one we’re leaving behind.