By Christopher Vola
Wake up!
Don’t stagger, stare
and think
like a cheeseburger –
not like that.
Exchange gunfire
in chronic rehab
visit the aroma
of marijuana
that greets the smack-fiend
and national garbage
on the Subway.
Ride blonde flip-flops
in their iPad
life so seriously.
It isn’t permanent.
Red sprawls,
fraying advertisements,
A black hand clutching a bottle
of el mundo! The same picture that
glares down
at the passengers.
You won’t find the residue.
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I appreciated the instructional imperitives here–how so very often do our spiritual ambitions conflict with the concrete streams of real world distraction!
Loved these lines:
“Ride blonde flip-flops
in their iPad
life so seriously.
It isn’t permanent.”
Short and sweet delivery works well here! Great read! thx!