poem of the day 03.30.15

the world on a string

i stare into the vodka

i stare into the void

wait in soup kitchen lines

for shits and giggles and student loans

i think of half a new york city block

taken out just like that

the barricades and the people taking pictures

above the subway rats and future sinkholes

i huff gas leaks and moonwalk on collapsed bridges

i sing a song of water contamination

dance like gene kelly in a downpour

stomp like alex the droog when a water main breaks

daydream commuter trains on rusted railroad tracks

skidding into forests or main streets

i do the evolution on the hottest spring day

in packed classrooms studying for the test

i shiver in march and deny the climate

three times before the rooster crows

hopscotch potholes and cracked concrete

pole-vault highway congestion

bawl and shout the mass transit blues

i spit runny dam water and coo to newborns

if it keeps on rainin’, the levee gonna break

i watch the buildings crumble

and the planes collide

release asbestos into the air

like beautiful white doves

i’ve got the world on a string, my friend

sitting here dining on coca-cola and oreos

in the shade of another nuclear winter

tweeting my thoughts on

my favorite super-hero films

poke my blind eye with a selfie stick

as the pundits pundit the plutocrats and oligarchs

on the  news cycle 24/7

and the soldiers do a goodwill tour after tour

like a never-ending oldies act

while the civil wars rage