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Afraid of Americans
Earthling 1997

Cara Losier Chanoine

Johnny’s in America,
a dopey-morning doc
standing in the mouths
of shrinking smiles.
He swivels his head,
just a human in disguise,
puts his eyes back
in Atlantic City,
no tax at the wheel.
Johnny combs his hair—
it’s just the payoff
in another pair of pants,
and I’d rather be a beggarman
on the shelf.

I drink of an evening sky,
my brain falling through
a crack in the past.
Dame Meditation, take me away.
Little wonder
you big screen dolls
pity the animal in me,
sit on my karma,
spinning slack through the end—
fast, like a bad infection
and sure,
I get a little bit afraid.

Silhouettes fall faster
than dreams,
naked and new on a rain-slicked street,
the frail form shot in the head.
Earthlings on fire
say God
is an American
and sure,
I get a little bit afraid,
but catch the last bus with me.
I’m holding your brains
in the shadows
in another pair of hands,
I’m afraid I can’t help it.

The chromosomes of space and time
are at the wheel
and I’m gone,
touching tomorrow
where three old men are dancing
like the boys that we were:
our own slim-tie showdown,
as lonely as the moon.

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