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It Looks Like Everything Is All
Right
M. Blake
Just getting by, something took
a piece of you
Everyday something nibbling at your soul
Or whatever that shrinking bit of you
is
(Not the smiling face for the neighborhood)
That thing you’re desperate to
hold onto
As you stroll through manicured and motor-buzzing
America, nodding at the righteous and
the sweating
(Yet your back does not straighten proudly),
Yet again trying to place yourself
In another day, in another somewhat distant
Setting, where everything seems functionally
perfect
(As noticeably attractive as a set of
capped teeth),
You, son, are a healthy part of it
A well-tanned and toned specimen
Pleasant on the eyes, a walking advertisement
For good diet and sensible living.
Do they see the flashing tenseness in
the jaw?
Hear the corrosiveness in the rant?
Feel the guts boiling?
No, that has nothing to do with eye-grabbing
sneakers
Or the latest cut in shorts.
And the smile is always quick to the
rescue
Covering for what the eyes betray
(A glimpse of the poison to put them
back on their heels).
Where has his attachment to anything
gone?
Can he become ardent about anything but
a fantasy?
Smelling a stink in him, a chemical burning
(Yes, any treasure left licked by the
flames)
Sensing a combustive end, a final implosion
With smoke fumes trailing in the air
A sudden “mysterious disappearance”
Recorded in the town organ of record.
A figure never without a smile and a
wave
A good-natured ornament to the community
And surely missed, say those wistful
expressions
Filling so many bright windows along
the way
Expressing so many poignant moments
Releasing just so much cultivated feeling And appropriately so, don’t you know.
M. Blake lives in Rhode Island and is working on a novel started last winter, but always
finds the time for shorter things. He has writing online at: 3711 Atlantic, Stick Your Neck Out, Hackwriters, Cerebral Catalyst,
Zygote In My Coffee, Fiction on the Web, and Expose’d.
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