CHI 92 ORL 87
We pretend life is glossy--
Predigested imagery
Passed along by mother bird
Into our waiting mouths--
Easy to swallow.
We want to see the cartoon--
Seamless.
Crystalline characters
Perched on
The tips icebergs.
Three-pointers and
Alley-oops and
Ankle-breaking buzzer-beaters.
This is what we want to see--
But this is not life.
Real life is sweaty
And hidden behind a cloud.
Life is digging in dirt
For worms
And then
Giving those worms
To our children.
Life is the same drawing
Over and over and over again--
A mountain of cold days.
Staying down and
Closing out and
Last second stops.
Predigested imagery
Passed along by mother bird
Into our waiting mouths--
Easy to swallow.
We want to see the cartoon--
Seamless.
Crystalline characters
Perched on
The tips icebergs.
Three-pointers and
Alley-oops and
Ankle-breaking buzzer-beaters.
This is what we want to see--
But this is not life.
Real life is sweaty
And hidden behind a cloud.
Life is digging in dirt
For worms
And then
Giving those worms
To our children.
Life is the same drawing
Over and over and over again--
A mountain of cold days.
Staying down and
Closing out and
Last second stops.