Humorless memorials of past lives and past events form currents in water memories
Hoping
And so insistent in their devices
The underdog kid, the johnny appleseed daydream ambassador
By day a native jester entertaining flying squirrels and spring robins
By night the microphone for close to six decades, apologetics and a middle eastern conflict
The memoirs of Bruce Springsteen, summer nights and high school reunion photographs
As proof of maturity and inspiration for further distribution
Where and when
Our new homestead will arrive
On the doorstep of a fragile adolescence
