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3/14/2016

Two poems by G. M. H. Thompson

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65  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



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 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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