GUEST POST, WHAT KIND OF MIRROR by Ron Heckert

What kind of mirror is this anyway?

And another day became another day.

I am writing this for posterity, to look back on in future times, better times hopefully, but worse isn’t wholly unlikely.

This space ship to Mars just keeps on travelling. 

There is an end to this journey, eventually, but whatever. 

On this day here I was/am/be, bored and uneasy, in my little spacetime travelling pod.

I drink a hard seltzer or two. 

I smoke a bit of pot.

I find myself at this daily; a drink, or two, or three; a hit, or two, or four. 

I play video games in VR. 

I play guitar. 

I talk to my co-inhabitants. 

I rotate, from station to station every half hour or so.

I look at awful facebook videos of awful people being awful.

What kind of a mirror is this, anyway?

I walk in circles.

I talk in half thoughts.

I smoke cigarettes and I KNOW it’s gross and may give me cancer.

I think boring thoughts in a stream.

I pause to pee in a stream.

The stream is not a brook, but it babbles as much as my prostate will allow.

My mind babbles too, constantly.

What kind of mirror is this, anyway?

It’s all I got.

This fool was alive, once.

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DC VILLAINS ET AL ( 3 POLITICOPOPS )

1. LETTER ACROSS THE POND

dear United Mistakes of America

building walls 
wont stop planes 
or weather
only human progress

kindest regards

the United Supermarket Of Little Britain

PS
try NOT bombing
just for a change ?

PPS
kettle call the pot black much ?
i know . . .

PPPS
on that note
the kettles on if youre around ?

2. DOMESTIC ABUSE


fullfat putin
says 

if you stay home 
its ok to put the boot in

be dead by 41 anyway
on bathtub potato gin

fullfat putin

cant dilute him

and on the dashboard of a moscow cab 
nods 

a

bobblehead stalin

3. SPEECHDOM


youre free to speak

said idi amin 
on freedom of speech

but
i
cant
guarantee 
your 
freedom
afterward

and on cannibalism 

the perfect crime !
all the evidence is eaten

i see we taught him well

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