3/14/2016 0 Comments Two poems by G. M. H. Thompson65 MILLION YEARS AGO: Mais ou sont les neiges d’antan? –François Villon, Le Testament, 336 Only bones remain & petrified forests & black seas in our automobiles Today is a day of sacred ignorance a day of jejune decadence a day of blind ruination We each & every one of us is lost in forests of ruins forests of decay forests of sand & ashes forests where we are weeping and know not why Millennia are grinding to dust all around us worlds disintegrating in the acid of our unbelief universes torn to tatters through our crass indifference & there will be no redemption or reparation or reawakening. AIRY ANECDOTE —Did you hear about the balloon that got away? It had a tether I don’t know why & wherever it went it wrecked. The power lines it wrecked. the telephone wires it wrecked the t.v. towers it wrecked Many thousands of people were without electricity & I think finally they shot it down About the author: G. M. H. Thompson was born on February 15, 1990, in about 12 in the morning, in a hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America. G. M. H. Thompson received a B.A. in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on the twelfth of May, 2013. His poetry either has or will shortly appear in Old Red Kimono, Shemom, Bear Creek Haiku, Scifaikuest, among others. Let Us Go, a poem of his, has received the Winter 2016 Heart & Mind Zine Judge's Choice Award in the category of poetry. This poem will be published on February 28th, 2016, along with the rest of the Winter 2016 edition of Heart & Mind Zine (http://www.heartandmindzine.com).
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