You could resist a melody
but who will be killed
if one just appears,
as a moon in daylight might.
If I believed in god
I’d thank it for making
irony: tiny neon frogs
and baroque jellyfish
so beautiful they can
go ahead and kill you
without even having
to feel like it.
Hush, everyone
screaming down there,
we can’t hear the new
album everyone loves,
you have to be serious
all the time or else
everyone dies. Well,
from They Don’t Kill You Because They’re Hungry, They Kill You Because They’re FullFind it in the library
Copyright © 2014 Mark Bibbins
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