Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VIDEO RAIN, by JANE MILLER Poet's Biography First Line: I am flown to your good side now Last Line: Sunsets outside quiet silent towns. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Discontent; Materialism; Popular Culture - United States; Television; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dissatisfaction; Tv | ||||||||
I am flown to your good side now. Hiked up like a skirt, the elevator intones the cardiac, the cancer ward, & finally the stroke floor, because we're always in bed & need to be reminded we must all carry our seed in our heads like flowers. The insane staking an identity on high-tech. It's time to rethink the entire landscape while I still have the body for it. After years of doing what you've done, you'd do it too, my hero. As I drag you to one side I wait for the coin to drop & the video to begin lighting its commands, ATTENTION this is your stress test, having to really give all that suffering up, having it as a guide, not a destination. Everything is explained in-flight. I can't stand these elderly stewardesses, computer tones whispering FORWARD. At Atlanta International there's a sharp tear of fluorescence on a poster baby & in eyes that have just come from the freeway as from a marriage of Mobil & McDonald's. Getting off at the right time like a drug, at Terminal C Olympic games are re-run, blank sharks the pool, blank scarfs Wheaties. This is consciousness of 5 P.M. airtime, where temporarily I live on the corner of Asamblea de Dios & Destino. There's my exit, low tide, a last morning on a beach, & this is it, isn't it, the earth we despaired of with Texaco refineries & acid rain & you're having to take the hand of the man in the moon, the black male nurse so clean & necessary. Like tourists reach for a Holiday Inn in the fog, as you feel for him I have been really feeling this country lately deciding what to do next, conscientiously pressing street crossings like the accordion which opens into a city, and the only difference is this really happened. For everyone, Dad, the days are long, but it seems like we're always in bed, sunsets outside quiet silent towns. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FIRST ON TV (FOR WALTER CRONKITE) by DAVID IGNATOW GOODNIGHT, GRACIE by LLOYD SCHWARTZ LISTENING TO A BROKEN RADIO by ARTHUR SZE THE PRICE IS RIGHT: A TORTURE WHEEL OF FORTUNE by EDWARD DORN WATCHING TELEVISION by ROBERT BLY A WINTER OF LOVE LETTERS AND A MORNING PRAYER: 5 by JANE MILLER A WINTER OF LOVE LETTERS AND A MORNING PRAYER: 7 by JANE MILLER |
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