The Conditional
Ada Limón – 1976-
Say tomorrow doesn’t come.
Say the moon becomes an icy pit.
Say the sweet-gum tree is petrified.
Say the sun’s a foul black tire fire.
Say the owl’s eyes are pinpricks.
Say the raccoon’s a hot tar stain.
Say the shirt’s plastic ditch-litter.
Say the kitchen’s a cow’s corpse.
Say we never get to see it: bright
future, stuck like a bum star, never
coming close, never dazzling.
Say we never meet her. Never him.
Say we spend our last moments staring
at each other, hands knotted together,
clutching the dog, watching the sky burn.
Say, It doesn’t matter. Say, That would be
enough. Say you’d still want this: us alive,
right here, feeling lucky.
Thank you, Jan. Ada Limon’s Lucky is downright real. Speaks to me.
Marlena
At the Narrow Waist of the World: a memoir http://www.marlenamadurobaraf.com
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Yikes appropriate for the day
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And I set it up to publish this morning some time ago.
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