June 19, 2015

Bad Air Everywhere

Commonplace madness

spews, froths, invades innocence.

Brush fires smolder in likely places

and unlikely places

smoking, choking, spreading low, evil heat,

tended, sustained, nurtured, by the commonplace mad.

Walk to the corner in bare feet. No don’t.

Take care, take care.

Commonplace explosions

shatter, burn, destroy innocents. 

Furnaces blow in cellars,

churches, on street corners,

eruptions of deadly poison, bursting flame

startling, destroying, convulsing,

neglected or overfilled by the overseeing mad.

Sometimes there are warnings. Often none.

Take care, take care.