poem | Chris Brown

POLITICAL CLIMAGE CHANGE

consumerism
assumes the proportions
of an ultra-marathon sale

with no finish-line in sight
& the future begins
to think only of itself –

almost facetious in the
imperative: today only
as collectively we agree: it’s only toying with us

& live for the now. looking
so much like the present the future
refuses to show its face –

has little option (outside a form of scotoma)
than to parade its failures, its wars
& other dark monuments from what would be history

in the nakedness of the present.
whether or not the present wants to know about it.
that a future looks like this.

that we should:
forget about political climate change
go on as we are – here in the now in the future.

© Chris Brown

Overland 187–winter 2007, p.80