Nicholas Stern | Randomly Accessed Poetics

Car Was Alarmed by Nicholas Stern

the car was alarmed

armed and dangerous

a raging road runner

disabled now

by smart circuitry

but not before

deafening neighbors

who will be avenged

by howling dogs

who won’t be silenced

with the flick of a switch

life was simpler

I suppose

when all you had to do

was fall off your horse

and piss under a crescent moon

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