FLUID RESISTANCE

Talk of artificial flowers
and looted cemetaries
makes me smile:
And our skins
are near each other, clothed
in foreign textiles and harsh
harsh blah words with
no specificity
are being sent through the atmosphere
where they will not
stop
until they are picked up
by Armenian ham radio operators,
who then write new poems,
which lie unpublished
in a book of pages
brought back by an uncle
who travelled to China.
He opened a chicken store there;
married for no reason at all.
Bathing in the Yellow River
was the source of his obscene power.

© 1992 Daniel X. O'Neil

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