Sunday, May 28, 2017

why ride on four wheels when two will do


why ride on four wheels when two will do?
why use polluting motors when you can peddle?
on family outings, use a train or bus
with friends together it saves
the environment from waves of smog

the industrial revolution made life more convenient
made living inconvenient for exploited workers
whose families depend on them for support
while they were eaten by the system
that paid half to kill the other half

living ghosts float by my eyes
thanks to comments on friendly posts
like a science teacher who justified
global warming for arctic shipping lanes
with whom i have no intention of starting a chat

contributing to death by sorrowful rottenness
there is relief in not seeing ghosts in the flesh
by rejecting dependency on them
we did not twist the minds of our kids
children who needed attention

poisoned effects of separation
without closure from an estranged mother
a narcissistic reality inherently corrupts
disabling a homeopathic state of mind
minding counseling in the states.

living in the fantasy of novel writing
is a safe remedy for a pensioner with a wife
who is comfortable at home
and does not feel the need to travel
even riding on four wheels instead of two

if the weather were not threatening rain
having taken great pains to make facts jive
at what point in my evolution
will removing me from the cauldron
of the sulfur kings cool my coals?

May 29, 2017  

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