It’s cold
Aren’t you cold
Aren’t you surprised by how cold it is
In mid-Spring and it’s this cold
What about the global warming
I was looking forward to that
Wow
It’s cold
I saw a bear looking sleepy
There’s a snowplow still on a truck
Damn
The cold seems to be sticking
What about that oil in the ocean
We’re going to need that oil if it stays this cold
I saw a butterfly with a sweater
I saw a tree changing color and it barely had leaves
Cold
I think it might snow
I want it to be warmer
I demand it be warmer at once
Nature isn’t supposed to not conform to our expectations
When the calendar is this clear it ought to be obvious
I have a lot of calendars and they all have warm pictures on them
But it’s still cold
Cold as maybe March is cold
Not as cold as February of course
But cold
The world’s a couple of months behind
We are falling behind
What about cookouts and bathing suits
What about the top down and the beach
I blame the government
I blame fucking Obama
I blame someone
What about global warming anyway
Didn’t they promise us it was getting warmer
I’m going to stop recycling if this keeps up
It’s cold
Gotta be sixty out there and it’s supposed to be seventy
I’m afraid it’s going to stay this way
I’m afraid it’s going to go the other way
I’m afraid
Cold
Afraid
Cold
I’m going to start a fire
May 7, 2010
Cold (Political Discourse)
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About Tony Brown
Dark Matter 
May 11th, 2010 at 7:19 am
this seems to not have much merit and realy no poetic movement.
+1
May 11th, 2010 at 1:15 pm
Goodness, this seems to have provoked a couple of people.
I made a decision long ago to post all kinds of work here — including the misses. This, evidently, was a miss for some of you.
Briefly, the poem was intended to be an absurdist comment in the style (kinda) of Tao Lin on the conspiratorial mindset that finds ways to attribute all kinds of things to the Forces Behind The Scenes. I never intended it to be any more than that; the ending is supposed to get at the fear that things are beyond control in modern life.
I’ll read it out loud at a reading tonight — my usual practice. We’ll see how it goes over…it maybe will work, maybe won’t in performance.
Anyway, thanks for reading it. There’s plenty of other work here that may be to your liking, or not. It’s your opinion, after all.
May 7th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
this seems to not have much merit and realy no poetic movement.
May 7th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
Thanks for reading it.