Here and Now
There is a time and place for
everything: for fanatic shenanigans,
cleverness, pedantry and scab-picking;
for clumsy poses and deft evasions;
for mourning and meaning; for greening;
for oil on coral, full moon nonrival,
happy gadgets, catch-as-catch-can whoopee,
serial feeling; for processed food and
manufactured need, stimulated hatred
and simulated dangers, electronic friends
and role-playing enemies, allocated starvation
and alien disease; and bailouts and buyouts
and foreclosures; and glory and terror and
naked exposure; for urban legend,
hypoxia, and—wait—loss, culture wars and
culture whores and otium cum dignitate,
iatrogenic clinics, and scandals of scoundrels;
for growth and shrinkage; for structure and rhyme
and random association, upheaval and recession;
for celebration and cruelty and penance and
affection.
All poems are written and copyrighted by Michael C. Rush.
None may be republished or repurposed without permission.