[lit-ideas] SUNDAY POEM

  • From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 21:36:28 -0600

JUST ANOTHER FAILED REVOLUTION

I was in Paris in '68,
but I was a week too late,
the riots were already over.
One burnt car
outside a bar -- 
testimonial? 
memorial?

On the sidewalks,
pockets of people 
argued,
but no stones 
were thrown,
it was over,
all over and done with.

Here had happened 
real rage against the machine.
Happened like a hard rain.
Now all that remained 
was to clean
the event 
of any importance.


Mike Geary
Memphis

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