Friday, May 18, 2012

NOT A TON


Not a toN
of
radical moons
but
it’s a good start.

Not a toN
 of
bread
but
it’s a popular sitcom.

Not a toN
of
nurses
but
it’s a promising scholarship.

Not a toN
of
reason
but
it’s a firm handshake.

Not a toN
of
ketchup
but
it’s a justified genocide.

Not a toN
of
diplomas
but
it’s an excellent carrier in Nuremberg.

Not a toN
of
meaning
but
it’s a worthy work of art.

Not a toN
of
 communication
but
it’s a lot cheaper in the summer.

Not a toN
of
housing
but
it’s a shoot em up video game.

Not a toN
of
clothes
but
it’s a crowded convention.

Not a toN
of
progress
but
 it’s a start up company.

Not a toN
of
sex
but
it’s a savings account.

Not a toN
of
poets
but
it’s a restless fire.

Not a toN
of
assassinations
but
it’s a meal that comes with fries.


Not a toN
of
garbage
but
it’s an honest dialogue.

Not a toN
of
time
but
it’s a moving book.

Not a toN
of
tears
but
it’s a woman smiling.

Not a toN
of
laughter
but
 it’s a blind canary.

Not a toN
of
secrets
but
it’s an old mirror.

Not a toN
of
words
but
it’s a deep river.

Not a toN
of
dreams
but
it’s a Greek grandmother.

Not a toN
of
suicides
but
 it’s a leap year.

Not a toN
of
hubris
but
it’s a second mortgage.

Not a toN
of
robberies
but
it’s a cardiac arrest.

Not a toN
of
divorces
but
 it’s a Sunday.

Not a toN
of
philosophy
but
it’s a buffer zone.

Not a toN
of
mistakes
but
it’s a fascist government.

Not a toN
of
wars
but
it’s a child’s drawing.

Not a toN
of
humanism
but
 it’s a Nobel Prize.


Not a toN
of
friends
but
it’s a one year lease.

Not a toN
of
caressing
but
it’s a lap top.

Not a toN
of
flirting
but
it’s a pda

Not a toN
of
happiness
but
it’s a new restaurant.

Not a toN
of
living
but
it’s an insurance commercial.

Not a toN
of
justice
but
it’s an Ivy League Communist.

Not a toN
of
imagination
but
 it’s a recreational drug.

Not a toN
of
prisons
but
it’s a small neighborhood.

Not a toN
of
 schools
but
it’s a beautiful church.

Not a toN
of libraries
but
it’s a cheap app.

Not a toN
of
public
but
it’s a leather wallet.

Not a toN
of
water
but
 it’s an Evian (=naivE)

Not a toN
of
food
but
 it’s a Third World Country

Not a toN
of
logic
but
it’s a collateral damage

                  Not a toN
                  of
                  truths
but
 it’s a good ending.