Eyes Still Shut by Scott Schaus

Eyes Still Shut,
Scott Schaus,
Metamurism/Frederick,
2010

Black sheep in the day
is illuminated,
neon child
playing hide and seek.
games we learn,
unconsciously,
through the tv.
test us hard,
the old on the youth:
we're your lab rats
fed with a golden spoon

vegetables blind to their food
who placed these roots?
if not god then who,
made beggars choose
corporate zoos.
god is a fluke
man made her rules
thieves with good intentions
to think that it's come to this

we'll vomit back your research
of what is good,
they're all wordless labels.
ask us to write
just what we read.
collectively,
down one stream.
call us the same,
call us names,
but know that we don't care.

for heresay that darker days,
they may come

dancing naked in the rain
eyes closed
greet the mud.

sun won't rise,
if you believe it.

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