by LB Sedlacek (North Carolina)
Source: Hemlock Suicides Planned by Well-Dressed Men In Suits (2004) p.11
Sometimes the wrong mail
is placed in our P.O. Box
-addressed to someone else,
and sometimes the names are
familiar, or even the last names
are the same as mine
or someone else at the office,
but most of the time there's
no connection - no real reason
for the mix-up's;
we chalk them off to
carelessness or random mistakes
or the whimsy of chance
which can be cruel or sweet
when the husband walks away
unscathed from a car wreck, or
when the daughter never returns from a
boat ride with friends
her parents leaving knee prints in the sand
as they beg the ocean for an explanation
that when it comes
is drowned by the roar of the surf,
the rage of the wind
that scatters mail around the sorting room
eventually ending up in the wrong box.
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Aluminum Altitudes
by LB Sedlacek
Source: Hemlock Suicides....... (2004)
p.19
Beneath the clouds above the fog
captive passengers languished
within alumimum bodies
with only one recourse for freedom.
They endured scraps of food
and bitter water --
minds whipped into a furious mood,
computer batteries dead without a charge -
first class hook ups tapped out on this floating barge.
Vegetarians: victims of chance
with starvation forced upon them
plotting revenge against the flight attendant's dance
as they use their own headphones to listen in
to pre-programmed music or T.V.
canned laughter sitcoms make the mind seethe
reaching for aspirin to stop the migraine train.
Of course there will be delays
no warnings of their hideous ways
a platoon of altitude junkies
who always swear
they'll take the bus next time
but never do, the fly bird's built-in flunkies.
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Poems are copyrighted 2004-2005 to LB Sedlacek.
Available in print edition.
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