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Sean Flaherty
Poems
Apr 2014
New World Ordinary
Take me back to the
Ashtray, in which we burned
Incense, in the front
Of my truck
Flick your ash out the
Window. Keep an eye out for
Anyone working harder than we
Believe they should. Or danger.
Read me a story. Tell me
How he’s not what you thought.
Diffuse the red dye of your
Stained words through the air.
Breathe deep. Hold for ten.
Delete the stanzas, re-read,
Test foundation under shaky limbs.
Burn your bra, don’t turn around.
Forget.
Become the bare-footed rockstar in
His maharishi mansion.
Hating hate, with vivacious volition.
Crusade against indifference.
Retire to your riches.
Numb out everything they’ve already said.
And have foresight, of what they haven’t.
Novus Ordo Seclorum.
Defeat the mundane.
Return to your home world.
Return to the truck.
Light the **** incense.
Don’t ash on the rug.
Gray waves of glowing
Boredom wash over your
Pre-glossed eyes.
Dance, clouds!
These will serve as your instructions.
She will serve as your guide.
Hold on, for dear life.
Sometimes the inconsequentiality,
Can send you through the shield.
Novus ordinary Seclorom
I wrote this for a Her, whose h, I no longer capitalize.
She told me she'd tried to "memorize... one of them."
"The one about the incense."
H mmm...
#love
#friends
#fear
#future
#of
#the
#cigarettes
#coping
#loving
#sitting
#talking
#cars
#trucks
#dead-end
Written by
Sean Flaherty
Massachusetts
(Massachusetts)
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