Thunder Sandwich #12-It's What's For Lunch
Poetry By

Taylor Graham



GADABOUT

You've been to buzz the sights
and taste the smells, all
the tiny lenses of your eyes
and skinny legs with road-dust
from a day of flight, alight
and fugiting. You've sipped
a baby's tears and the dead
man's wine. You've been
here/there/here & everywhere
from excrement to sky. Slut
who keeps nothing to yourself,
you share a secret recipe
on the sly. I'd swat
you flat and call you fly.

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NEW YEARS EVE

We've passed 6 billion on the globe.
The cruise to Acapulco's booked,
the Hiatt Regency, Sinnamon Hybiscus
at The Grove -- everything's
reserved while millions starve
without a party.

I know a hill where someone once
saw stars, rumors of the planets
swaying to a music off the band.
We could get there in the dark
and not be back by New Year
in the morning.


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