Low Power Mode

Please pardon the recent history

of our disease, which includes

but is not limited to charm schools,

tanning salons, hamsters in wire cages,

men on the moon, auto-updates,

indicator lights, boner pills, and guns.

The results can be summarized as follows:

missing bodies were not found, oceans

disappeared into the sky, email did not

improve anything, birds became spirits,

horses survived in pictures until the pictures

went up in flames, white flags fluttered

above the cities and small towns,

news travelled underground,

Jesus remained in the tomb,

and the book was closed.

 

What then?

 

We gathered at the tumbled wall

between all and thin air,

where we wept

and sometimes held each other’s hands.


Also by Owen McLeod

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