Wednesday, June 10, 2015

We need a bigger Sun

We need a bigger Sun

That was still when wires were small,
I tell my absent son. Before the walls
were alive with things. The refrigerator
slept when yogurt was low. The displays
didn’t listen for your tongue’s double click.
The power lines grew thicker until no poles
could raise them. They lined the streets
like maples and in the plants turbines grew
feeding our need to communicate. Now
it takes all the energy of the sun to teleport
just one ounce of you within this universe
and avoid the windshield of a passing car.

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