Parker Hobson
There is a thin, curvy line
between laughter and slaughter, I try yelling
to you on the roller coaster but my timing
is off, our shark bodies flung
into runaway cursive, vestigial Converses dragging serifs
across the clouds. Still, it feels nice to be held
in a system. Look at this shape I'm tracing!
Look at the intestinal, steel-swept whale spine of how I'm staying
to the end. In a few minutes, sharing sno-cones
beneath our little quilt of redactions, you'll bring up how neocons
sold out the Amazon. I won't tell you
I wish you would ask me what I'd been trying to tell you.
Is there an official corporate sponsor for recognizing a feeling
as mostly ridiculous, while feeling it wholly?
Mid-air together, in the state-inspected momentum,
our city spreads out like a mnemonic that forgot
what it stands for—the ranch-houses notched
like foosball teams across the plains,
the kids hoping to pass for skater kids all glowing
from the midway like steeples
from a TVA lake. And the horizon window-
silling us here, plural, painted shut.
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