Dream-Visions
I
Glazed-eyed waves of displaced populations
Undulating across the face of the earth,
Like locusts swarming fields of grain and beans —
Plague's pestilential starvation harvest...
II
Mounted high atop the hairy shoulders
Of an three-hundred-pound orangutan,
Holding on for dear death,
As it stalks some movie studio's back-lot set
Of a cancerous land
Swarming with millions of malnourished ants —
Human pismires fleeing their emaciated shadows...
02/28/09
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