Music Commentary--Creative Writing--Cultural Hilarity





"What if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles?"--Neil Postman






Sunday, December 16, 2012

A Clean Way to Talk Dirty


We were never exactly pure animation.

Each time we touched,
Fidgeting in the off-kilter moonlight,
We took road trips ending
at dilapidated Disneylands,
Calling each other’s ex-lovers
some mornings before breakfast.

We watched spontaneous explosions
on Saturday morning cartoons,
Thinking long and hard
about the way flirtatious vampires
wear sunglasses in Victorian England,
joking that no one ever really goes home again.

It’s funny how a room with the lights out
Can remind us of permanent Halloween masks,

How we still get nostalgic about
the way blood drips from an I.V.

Alaskan summers have nothing on us. 

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