"Steam-Driven Jaw" by Cal Morton, Jr.
Rend the chains attaching broken dreams
left in small town fields demonstrating cool ones' glory.
We never thought those days would see their ends:
the era of school rules demanding quickly calculated stories.
Sporadic lights livened a nightly toilet paper excursion.
We acted nothing like you paint us
for the absorbed laser-date pom-poms and bulldogs.
Did they censure other close-calls rushing in our heads?
But if they looked very closely,
they would notice us powerless
hearkening to Parking Garage Kingdom's call
laden with blacktop and office spires.
And we don't care to know
just where our souls will go
-Mars, perhaps-
ascending to the stratosphere,
exhausted by youth abused.
In spontaneous doorways opening on unpaved roads,
belated friendship cards are awaited.
Home-front's turfed and siblings privileged give way
to yawned normals dodging the Beast Van squeals.
Black Widow queen and heavy metallic company - babe, we'd
make a good team.
No excuse need be made for pursuit - we know your script by
heart.
The luck of destiny's die cast shown in our instantly-grati
fying favor.
Pill-popping gang-banger dudes flip-off cart-popping pad-
pounding dudes.
But if they looked very closely,
they would notice the aspirations expressed
made perfect total sense,
produced by Fridays' idleness.
And we don't care to know
just where our souls will go
-Mars, perhaps-
ascending to the stratosphere,
exhausted by youth abused.
We never knew
red lights weren't for speeding through.
We never knew
the sound barrier wasn't for breaking through.
We never knew
we cherished the few
who had only fun in the fleeting now.
Bruder Yade ejected from deep digital blues:
Captured by the Phreaks, the Alternative, the Found;
Awestruck by the Sheep, the Addictives, the Sound;
Crusading inter-state after choreographed icons.
Our push-button humor adept at observing interest
holier than thy preps bowed before you.
Not enough poem ever could be wrote
to describe the night augmenting wired caffeine heights.
But if you looked very closely,
you would notice a blurred Tempo's bumper sticker
proclaiming
"This Space for Lease"…
to Cal to
Moongate
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