3 Years After the Eruption - Climate

Three years after the eruption

Things ash brown gray and black

Temperamental mothers, fathers, smiling through

Age lost in a free mind full of home, houses

Expert witness and a lynch mob, triumphant!

Stock footage strewn across the cutting room floor

Tropical steam room lunches, free lunch!

Tender moment a boy and his dog burying the bone

Lost and found sensibilities trading post deadlines

Square pegs in square holes don’t fit

Batteries weak or dead picture too light, overexposed

Harvard doctors link liquor to sex, brilliant!

Textbook deliveries now run on time

The little brown box full of prizes, toys

Four light squares illuminate rooms, blinds drawn

Two chairs set in stereo

Left, right, a common bond

Red felt white pages

A government listing

Who’s been left out?

Friends? family? sex?

Four legs in a bucket standing at the door

One upon three upon seven

Plastic container

Sun-stained memories

Fresh eyes, greet them!

Turn it down!

It’s 3 PM, the dogs are sleeping!

Chorus variations up to speed fake wood

Tin sheets blanket frozen mountains

While other children play fetch and darts

Dinner plates thrown across thirty tables

Napkins, spoons, forks

No knives!

Pin-striped leopards in man-skin suits

Open doors for ladies and their loves

It is never winter here

It is never summer there

It is never winter here

It is never summer there