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Right turn • Red lights • Left turn • Red lights • Straight on • Red lights • Red lights

 

More than enough is enough is never enough.

Too little for too many, too much for too few.

The accidents play out in limitless frames

and we go limping through the stoplights home.

Left turn • Red lights • Straight on • Red lights • Side street • Red lights • Red lights

Snow keeps on coming,

hangs out like fleurs de lis and chandeliers

on streets of neon cashmere,

painful to the touch.

Straight on • Red lights • Side street • Red lights • On ramp • Red lights • Red lights

Whatever happens seems an omen of Rome:

the thrill of agony and the victory of defeat,

the feedback loop of the on-and-on.

Laughter a murder laughter again.

Side street • Red lights • On ramp • Red lights • Lane shift • Red lights • Red lights

So I roll on reality, one-lane highways, growing gaps,

executives come downsize time,

how a carefully engineered face waits behind every door.

Functionaries, understanding

settled like a watermark upon the eye

regulated to the brink of disorder

and blameless for their bombshells.

On ramp • Red lights • Lane shift • Red lights • Off ramp • Red lights • Red lights

Solutions are subversive

and our ills as we desire them to be--

big bad unsolvable

infinitely profitable.

What will we take back when we reclaim remains?

Lane shift • Red lights • Off ramp • Red lights • Red light • Red lights • Red lights

Look, a vehicle breaks from the herd, spins into whiteness.

Cop cars, cherry and snowball blueberry, alight,

butterflies en masse around catastrophe.

Off ramp • Red lights • Red light • Red lights • U turn • Red lights • Red lights

Do we control our destiny? Did the dead?

Up to a point that never settles

like snowflakes lost in outer space, 
shifting down around around around?

Red light • Red lights • U turn • Red lights • Wrong street • Red lights • Red lights

Oh, all you Mercedes with no track to run

aiming your afterburners into

Mercedes with no track to run before you,

are you tuned in to catch the latest contradictions,

are your wheels spinning in ways beyond design?

U turn • Red lights • Wrong street • Red lights • U turn • Red lights • Red lights

You can stop it if you really try you see you can't stop it.

Snow keeps on coming

keeps turning to mineral in white lot light

to cauliflower dark from the dirt.

Wrong street • Red lights • U turn • Red lights • One way • Red lights • Red lights

Two hours on, red lights have me filled

with so much hope and doubt

waiting for something to catch fire.

Almost home; til then
we must submit to aspire.