Friday, July 8, 2016

On Superior Avenue with a Fistful of Daisies on the Eve of the RNC.



It's summer in Cleveland.

Thunderstorms rumble
violent along the lakeshore,
crank up the humidity,

and seem to foreshadow
the ghastly roadshow of politicians
lining up skulls to be busted.

I woke up after last night's storm
wondering, "How close is the sound of thunder
to the echo of tanks on Superior?"

I've heard they built a stage on Public Square
for the voicing of opinions, strategically placed 
to be nowhere near any politicians ear.

Children, idealists, and rabble-rousers 
will bloom there like daisies,
until the tear gas comes.

I read somewhere
you can use a daisy as a gas mask
by placing the flower in your mouth, then

breathing through the stem.

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