BLUE SUEDE
https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/The polished night
obsidian
shelters you in its cocoon
your perfect spot to stay put
and ruminate
until the dawn
You cannot remember
what is holding
America together--
some long lost ideal
of ultimate rightness
and robust potential
perhaps
as seen (or constructed)
in Whitman's mind's eye
The young greeter wearing
the mask at the market
says you always wear
the coolest shoes when
you come in...
You look down...
Oh, those are my
Blue Suede Shoes!
You are startled
that a pleasant someone
barely on your radar before
has taken note of you
when most who once bore
the heavy burden of
significant other
surely haven't given you
a thought in decades
A reason to hold on
at least one more day
you say
Just to see what will happen
to America
caught up in an Agatha Christie
whodunit
where you think you know
who's the bad guy
but do you really...
in a world where all the players
are complicit in the murder?
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