Coda

a poem for ya

I open my ears to the world
wanting to hear a sound 
that I never knew existed

musings of a morbid maestro
sinister solitude
of sheltered skies

ghosts of old groan
hymnals hanging hellishly
woven into the woods

smokestacks signal certainty
acid rainclouds assure
an air of industry allure

MRI machine murmurs
cancer across the cortex
pretty pills down the pipe

clocks gone silent
at the sound of the fist
secondhand slitting my wrist

chandelier chimes
champagne corks 
the last supper of silver forks

shabby shibboleths 
of a complacent age
last emperors 
in a decadent cage

solar winds and glacial melt
religious qualms and reading of palms
postponed poems and lost letters
atomic bombs and ancient psalms

eternities evaporate
beyond the horizon line
asynchronicities appear
in the present time
canaries gone quiet
in the coal mine

breath of black lung
exhaling exhaust
what songs were sung
in a language lost?

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