Sunday, August 23, 2020

Poetry from the book {Bunny Hop} by Artist Troy Richard Thomas

 I am tired and sat down next to a tree


Will I become Rip VanWinkle


I wake up in 3040 and I am floating atop a burger stand


The wilderness I sat down in has turned into a concrete landscape of a bombed out city


Peter Pan and tinkerbell fly above the buildings dropping gasoline bombs


Like a lava flow people are flowing across the pavement


A giant earthworm is picking up human riders


The fish cast out for people with video game lures


Giant hooks pop out of the lures and the fish drag the humans into the water and swallow them whole in a big bass mouth


How we have become the world


It's so easy to fall in place, conform, and turn into a piece of shit


I float with my boat tied to my hand and spin into a dream on the Upper Iowa


You needn't dream here, everything is done for you


Sorting robots roam through the trash looking for precious metals in trash bag heaven


Row crop money, sweet as honey


As the sun sets through the smoky dust, genetic vampires wake up and roam the streets looking for blood and popsicles.


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