Thursday, January 19, 2012

a brother’s letter …

life is no junket
I can only eat some junk and yet
that’s enough to get me going …
here’s what it says on a frosty window this morning:
                        “pay your mortgage
            free Congo
legalize marijuana”

o brother! gods are long dead
and no prophet has ever made bread

to wake a politician at 5 in -20, there’s no manna
            UN is no healthier than a pack of mango
                        and I still don’t have a home up to this age

I better embrace this snow pellet
and make love to my fustian blanket
                    
- Ali Fatolahi, Jan-19-2012, Ottawa

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