8.14.2012

Milky Skies without the Milky Way

"Light parade everywhere"
-Ginsberg

They saw the light but the explosion was clandestinely one ominous oversight
Heat scatter clouding human brains with sunny Son soot of sprouting energy
that solemnly whispers, "Don't think. Don't leave the porch poor in the dark."
So you won't want better for Virginia Their biospheric bigot wanderlust
could be cured if they espied the stratosphere past smog
Cured by the cosmic if they could see meteorites as fragments of comets
Know their descent by the burning trails aflame in chemical stew
and bless the process and beg for luck
with the scene of red, white, and blue streaks of space litter still glistening
alive in their eyes. They'd see the light