After a Quote by Emerson
Want to make
people aware
of the troubles
in the world?
Forget it.
There are finally
just too many.
“Build therefore
your own world.”
And without cities
of bombed buildings
and charred cars,
above which silvery
white clouds drifting
in slo-mo really do
look like angelfish.
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Howie Good is a writer living on Cape Cod. His newest poetry book, The Dark, is available from Sacred Parasite, a Berlin-based publisher.
Dreamy, Howie.