“Overhead Shot: A Poem I Woke Up With On 3 February 2520 Athenian Era”

There’s an overhead shot of a man underneath a building that fell from the sky

There’s an underground rumor of revolution by a group they call May Lie

In shades of grey a color comment fails to reach its goal

As sporting types perform the wave tsunami style, so droll

It all adds up to nothing more or less than total mess

Where it stops and starts in bunny hops remains a guess

We whittle down a log of hourly death reports for fun

Writing down our many names until the list is done

Iambic September graduates to October’s chilling ghosts

Haunted by ourselves we scream and run between the posts

Modern life is endless chaos riding high in spades

As shades of ancient curses bring us closer to the blades

Sheep and cattle

Death’s dry rattle

Flies and rats

Infected tats of fate

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About Gene Stewart

Born 7 Feb 1958 Altoona, PA, USA Married 1980 Three sons, grown Have lived in Japan, Germany, all over US Currently in Nebraska I write, paint, play guitar Read widely Wide taste in music, movies Wide range of interests Hate god yap Humanist, Rationalist, Fortean Love the eerie
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