mildewed images

Mildewed Images

Mildewed realism
Flights of fancy
Are both at the end
Of the bed.
Mildewed realism
Imaginary worlds
Radio trauma
Collapse of hope.

Mildewed rationalism
Imaginary worlds
Radio traumas
Collapse of a nation
Sieg Heil
Am I on your conscience
Politicians?
Mildewed images
The moths got to them
Before we did
Says the policeman
The politician drives by
In a car like a battle-ship
A Lincoln Ford Intercontinental
The moths will
Get to him too in the end.

Christopher Baily
January 2003

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