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Twinkle, Twinkle, Uncle Floyd
Heathen 2002

Cara Losier Chanoine

Boy drags his bones
on a silver screen,
proclaims Here shall we live
in this terrible town,
parked under the same
old
dream.
I bet you laugh out loud at me,
sitting here—thin on the ground—
wishing on a cement floor.
From factory to field,
this little town
let me down.

I passed through the shadow
of Jupiter,
all legs and wings.
Down there below,
nothing is moving.
Down in space
it’s always 1982,
and a letter in your writing
doesn’t mean
you’re not dead.

I’ve put my face in tomorrow
and I demand
a better future.
I used to wake up the ocean,
crawl under the bracken
and take to the fire,
but I got so lost
on the shore, and now
the price for our minds
echoes in tenement halls.

You’ve been coming to me
for such a long time,
now.
Do your strange, sandy eyes
sleep in quietude?
Do you bloody your hands
on a cactus tree?

Don’t stay
in a sad place,
stumbling down a silent path.
Spill your breakfast
and drip your wine;
we could run
from this overdue train
when the rain slows.
Don’t forget
to keep your head warm.
When the rain slows,
you can always
come home.

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