The wizard upstairs gives me just what I want
To be wiser, more gun shy,
With one missing fairy.
It's Genocide Remembrance Day,
The day I read about Plutonium Jazz,
When the bass danced with isotopes
Until the geiger-charged crowd
Caught uranium, like junk, sickness
So it was prohibited, like a Jew,
Like Jazz in actual fact
In 60 cities in the 20's and 30's
Still the Sun Ra came through
With Nubians of Plutonia in the 50s
After he'd spent his childhood hiding
In an Arkansas Freemason library
And the results are still there
For all with eyes to see.
It's only a day.
I saw an Infinity Bank for the first time
On the same highway I drive daily,
The day the purple eyes of Google first displayed
The rise of the half moon
And a Colossal Squid was finally captured
On film.
It was a day full of intrigue,
When this year's fit girl winked
In front of the Jaguar
The shaman had finally become
As he reinforced the six-month moratorium
With strongly worded coffee:
"If you give me everything, you're giving me
Nothing. Which one, seriously, would you tap
When you've had three bites of the apple
And your salvage is still scrap?"
So I went the hard yards with Mizuho
But he saw on one of my Stanleys
That I was a Hoosier too
But Modelo, by the end of the work day,
Stood with Mexico like a good friend
Who knows how to look the other way.
But I can't unsee
How Pot Hueneme's no longer a destination,
How North Sea Copenhagen tops the Big Mac Index,
How inflection points create shifts create
Moments,
Like the College Cardinal now coincidently on TV
Vaping angrily.
Finally the white wolf meets me at the train
To hit the antique fair under the freeway
With the rastafari razorwires who have ears
On the sitch. Whenever mirrors are replaced
With plywood, it's a bad sign.
I come home to find
Even the cursory scan has been streamlined
To remove more friction
Between reader and word
But I'm so blissed off I can't even chase
The blue jellyfish feather.
