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In? Or! Without?

Mike Brennan

In families
Soft murmurs
Are summoned to surface
With a hello
The casually disguised but formal luncheon
& yet another good luck and goodbye

In towns
Pain is suppressed
By a simply laid plan & the gossiping palms
Pointing their fingers
At another’s halo
Or towards the telephone
Between Sunday mornings

In jails
Magic is forged
Into brick walls
With stealthy synthetic picks
Conversions        tattooed
Quite deeply        under the skin

In cities
Gatherings are discarded
For protective figures
Of semi-armored doubt

Every body is segregated-
Every body separates into another ghetto
Or a muted community caged behind a gate

In countries
True loves find themselves smiling
Within ruins, picnicking above dirt mixed with slaves’ bone
Touring castles of torture & exile & abandoned hells on earth
But the picture is worth more than the history &
A honeymoon always makes for a grand story

In life
Eternity escapes her cardiac arrest
But brooding about the falling ax
She packs her bags & rolls right
Off        into        the teary climax
Of yet another one of the Universe’s
Unproduced & Unpublished plays.

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