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Hay Fever
Hay Fever

We swim,
Like impending shark attack victims
Through an ocean of them;
Cloying little dybbukkim*.

We lumber, stumble,
Pant our way forward.
All that matters is completing each tiny task before us.
(Dignity is better left to some other family.)
(Say, people who can breathe.)
They weren't nearly this difficult
Yesterday.
Or a week ago.

What was it like,
To climb these stairs without
My heart pounding like a madwoman's?
When did breath become a commodity,
Sold in little plastic tubes?

I would be an accuser with a poisoned finger,
If only I could see them…
(Am I imagining my weakness?)
(Am I going deaf? Ill?)
They
Flying Garbage
Flying Garbage

My father never had
much patience
for pigeons. Flying rats.
Rats with wings; the connoisseurs of debris.
Whole flocks of them
eat the campus clean
While students congregate
to eat fried fat.
It's not that they're ugly birds…
But where would they be  
without cities?
Cities that bleed garbage made by men.
(And women, and babies, and cats.)
The dumb birds strip the
Earth bare.
And then fly on to browner sidewalks.

9/17/04

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:iconcausticgit:
I owe the concept to a Time headline, and some of the photos are from them, too. I pinched piccies from across the 'net, and if anyone wants 'em noted, just lemme know.

Democratic Dissidence is a site I run with a friend. Further wit and bush-bashing ensue. [link]


The full comic:
Part 1 [link]
Part 2 [link]
Part 3 [link]
Part 4 [link]

Brought to you by the girl who also gave you BUSHYODA!
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