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AKA Damon Arvid. Under-the-radar writer, musician. Let's keep it that way. The cloud novels and other highlights are being collected at DamonArvid.com. To access all the music and Avocado Sun, click the big black box below.

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Manifest Destiny or Mass Regret?

2/10/2017

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Here is another clue for you all: Frederick Vulcan, CEO of Creostone, Inc. And here is a poem that has been composed in tandem with the collaborative cover art for Fabric - Chasing Sun.
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Manifest Destiny or Mass Regret?


Shopping malls and grocery carts,
slate grey skies, 
prescriptions, prescriptions––

where did it all go wrong?
where did expansion end 
and leave the wooded path 

off in a parking lot 
and who was pulling strings 
at the casino, and where 

did the hard earned money, 
the Community Chest––

How did it get siphoned
into waves of 
avarice, regret?

Like Baltic Avenue traded up to prison
stacks and stacks,

the luxury of nature hidden,
the Boardwalk.

Bankruptcy never entering into the equation,
the weighted wheel, the loaded dice––
Work is for suckers, right?
Money––just a way of acquiring a war chest.

The cast out, who swooned under wooden boards 
on a Santa Cruz night 
at the slightest gesture,
making love in the moonlight 
as the ocean laughed 


and found themselves
at the end of a snub-nose dictator,
doling lies as he motioned toward the iron gate,
inducing mongrel reactions, 
humping the American public on his leg,
the country in heat for revenge 

against phantom enemies, a vision 
of humanity more Devo than talking head,
mucho headroom, less reality,
Viva device.


Aging, as others know it–––
a welling anger,

time, focus, gains, attrition
that ache the mere 
reality of sagging balls. 

The bell tolls, to whom does it speak––
manifest destiny or mass regret?

#endwriter


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