Read a poem
By Will Alexander
("you understand this
of your heart")
And imagine someone
Reading it in 500 years
When all this is gone
Gone the concrete
cloverleafs
Gone on the asphalt
rivers
Gone the blinking metal
towers
Gone the bombs exploding
homes
A hot & fertile peace
Wraps the land
Someone maybe human
Finds Will's book
Still caked
With the calcified chocolate
And caramel traces
From when it stood on my shelves
Next to melted candy
And can't believe
He lived side-by-side
With necrotic crazed
Men & women
Racing toward oblivion
What a strange & sad place
The world must have been
-- dh, summer solstice 2024
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