Sweet Want

Robert Ronnow
The Imaginary i

Sweet Want

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 and
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 each day
for another day

I don’t know what I want
I hear what I want to hear
the human meets the divine
and finds it wanting
wanting this, wanting that
you can want what God wants
or you can get control of your mind
Saturday’s the sweetest day
all joy
What will you find?