Earth Day
There was a day
A day which must repeat itself in every hour
A day his collective stupor was jarred
From the crumpled foul shrouds of the bed
In which he gorged on boomer excess
By fantastic color-saturated children of the dawn
With the others, he floated up to the light on a silent spring
Like Lazarus from a Euclidean grave
To see the yard in endless horrid rows
A garish gaping mosaic of yawning squarish holes
At the edge of which he still stands
Threatening himself to jump back in
Looking down like some ghoulish fixation
On a fatal accident that he thinks he only observes
He cannot bear to step back from the edge
And turn to embrace the mourners
From the burial grounds of every nation
And pay the secular priests who gave the rights
To the body politic their due
Resist! and reclaim the origins!
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