Tug
by Kay Kestner:
Tug
I’ve got 25 million more miles
to go before I find some kind
of peace of mind. And this
clueless Calypso keeps on clapping
his homeless mittens in my mind.
He’s still sitting in the womb, but
he’s bitching about not having a
place of his own to call home.
And there’s this dinosaur on my
shoulder screaming Chinese proverbs
and stick slapping me in the knees.
He’s impossible to please. I’m
buried beneath the baggage, a snake
crawling on the floor. And that
damn bird humming her I-wish-I-
were-pretties in my ear. There’s
sand crabs on my toes telling me to
go home, while the cattails grow
circles to hide my way back to
where they’ve built up a whole town
in the woods where I played.
And the traffic jammed in, the traffic
jammed out. I’m running out of gas
and the engine can’t pull the tow…
so I just let go.
© October 12, 1996 – Kay Kestner
Do Something for Democracy
Given the rapid changes to our government in the United States, it’s vitally important for us to speak up. Silence and apathy will only embolden a leader who serves his own agenda – an agenda that undermines democracy both within the US and around the world.
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Kay Kestner 
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