Listening to Armstrong
For Jim Fetzer
I wish and I wish
I wish no pregnancy
No smart kids
No blue waters
Hearing Armstrong chant
“What a wonderful world”
Life with no schools
Mother daring fear
Baba praising Bach
Not understanding love
Until that black sky
Till
Mesmerized masses
Armstrong mooning the Earth
Me all goose bumps
Those surreal flickering
images
A huge American flag
Furiously waving
Teasing taunting us
Never once I
questioned
Why my chest pumped hard
Why a furious flag
Never knowing
People joy dreams
More than sex
Money instead of love
Churches over God
Fiction than truth
Till my sister whispered
“Baba is Santa
Lord mad at furious flag”
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