Scrape dry acrylic off every canvas.
Suck all carbonation out of champagne.
Fade brightest hues from soft silks and madras.
Watch raging Atlantic flood Aquitaine.
Drain each salty ounce from the Aegean.
Melt all flakes of snow from the Pyrenees.
Mute wagging tongues among Europeans.
Bind politicians and break their bare knees.
Tap each phone in security’s empire.
Dig up each grave on America’s soil;
crack open coffins and set them afire.
Announce to the world we’ve run out of oil.
Two blessed lovers meet; one doesn’t know it.
So shoot all the books. Shred all the poets.
Roger Armbrust
July 8, 2013
