Articulate Summersaults

THE YEAR WAS 2020 / People rioting against the indifference of murder / While the eagle was having its nails done / The flip-flop of flying fish on the deck of Rimbaud’s drunken boat / Dizzy a flock of shadows chanting in rented tuxedos / Let’s tap-dance to the striptease of a threshold / As the theater of war kneels before its bread of shame / She wears her mysteries of sleep like a Ferris wheel in the distance