10,000 years from now
two men will be
digging
in the ground
and they’ll find
a frisbee
buried deep below the surface.
one man will look it over,
puzzled,
and turn to the other man
and ask him,
“what’s this?”
the other man will reply,
“don’t know.
looks like the lid of some kinda bucket to me.”
orange tree
everybody always says they want
an orange tree
in their backyard,
but i just rode past a bunch of houses
with orange trees
in their backyards
and oranges
all over the ground
in various stages of rot,
and i’ll step over
a rotting crab apple,
no problem,
but a rotting orange is something mournful,
and do you really want
to be that
mournful,
that many times a day,
everyday?
there’s a big truck
looks like it hasn’t moved in
1,000 years
and on the other side of a fence
there’s the rotting carcass of a dead deer.
they can’t see each other
but
both
are baking
in the sun.
9 out of 10 people
would prefer a diet-coke
to a lotus flower
if you gave them
the choice.
9 out of 10 crops
can’t tell the difference between
the spray from a
hose
and real rain.
