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Fin de Siècle Mid-Teens

Ralph Monday

Mayan apocalypse two years removed,
catastrophes plenty for the picking, they
lie all about like some gaping rotten fish
rising from the ocean floor.
The world is covered in global crustaceans,
Choirs of angels have ceased singing,
existence slowed by treading through
dark mud.
Feral instincts diminished by electronic
reality, salvation by flea markets, sacrament
drunk from corroded tin, tribulation sprung
from the loins of men and women.
No flower springs from this rotted corpse,
no champion throws down the gauntlet,
the spear embedded in Plexiglas for
Christmas browsing mall herds.
Any red light which glows in the western sky,
or beams down, Cyclops eye, from back
windows, is a razored sliver honed on
brittle bones.
We live in houses of the dead. For every
person alive, behind each individual walks
a hundred ghosts. We do not know the
sacrament.
We have lost the regenerated tree.
Helpless, we hang like mummified bats,
eyes turned downward, ears attentive
listening for century’s last heartbeat.

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