Sweet Want

Robert Ronnow
The Imaginary i

Sweet Want

--with a line by Simone Weil

Two gray-skinned
sharks, jets
embrace in the sky
a blue-green oil truck
takes the hill
in low steady gear
diagnosed
or in your prime
go to your chosen
discipline

Tomatoes and bananas
tornadoes and volcanoes
cashiers and clerks
petrochemicals and vegetables
water and bone
Roosevelt and Lincoln
Rick in Casablanca
Shakespeare so far
agriculture, culture and war
are yours to savor, enjoy or fear

Crews are working
to restore service
what kind of day was it
for its consideration
of unknowns
plus I have opinions
free and fair elections
respect your opponent
arguably
care about the cosmos

Humor or ardor
luck runs out
anything can happen anytime
the end, limit, boundary
a fossil of society
let community decide
your place in it
a billion circuits
running and at rest
the final resting place

That’s when the peace
work proves relevant
there are no ghosts
the accounting is relaxing
the transfer of power proceeds
the sorrow and the pity
on Earth and Tethys
do one thing well
sacrifice every day
for another day

Quiet, too quiet
I don’t know what I want
I hear what I want to hear
it is better to say
I am suffering
if nothing happens
there is no story
Saturday’s the sweetest day
almost all joy
What will you find?