poem || Alan Britt

AXIS

2:43 am→Thornton Burgess:

Jerry Muskrat,

Grandfather Frog,

Reddy Fox

and Peter Rabbit.

Lively, visionary, more intriguing

than recent Republican filibuster.

But occupations aren’t forever.

Never have, so why drown  

beneath an oil slick of wealth

and glory when eternity surely awaits

us—staring smack through ten zillion

windows and rocking our souls like nitro

glycerin ampules fro and to, to and fro,  

at a Stonehenge family reunion—

a delicate dose of the bitter truth.