Sunday, March 30, 2008

Oversees a Broad

Ghost buildings with painted on bricks.

They used to make flowers out of stone
and all you can do is get sick.

History grows out of the red soil ground
and film is for sale every second step
but has anything important been found?

They want to buy it from an old world store
because the rate of exchange on the past
is so much more.

When you go back home
remember to say hello
to the fake future,
the overflowed dike,
and the rupturing suture.

Let's build it up and knock it down again.
Make skyscraper pueblos out of styrofoam
and be the National Bank of Man.

The bills are never going to be paid
and we no longer care what was once there.
We're here to put the air in it's grave.

When you go back home
remember to say hello
to the forgotten past
and the rivers and grass.

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ScaughtFive said...

Thanks, breakfast buddy. I pulled this one from my notebooks. It got put down on paper in Spain 2004 after spending most of the summer in Morocco. All of the sudden, there's American tourists everywhere snapping and bitching and although I wasn't acting like I was on a lout rampage, I didn't exactly feel like I was solving the problem.