[Newspoetry] You are dreaming of a poem

[Scott Rettberg]

That is spelled the same backwards and sideways
You are dreaming of a poem that will give you
A gold medal instead of the crummy bronze you
Have been working for the last four years you
Are dreaming of a poem that will make your tent
Have bricks and a fireplace you are dreaming of a
Poem that will not crash your helicopter into the
Warm ocean you are dreaming of poem that will not
Leave you shot in the head somewhere in a country
You don't know you are dreaming of a poem that will
Buy your drugs for you are dreaming of poem that will
Do your sleeping for you are dreaming of poem that
Will will your children to know better you are not
A poem you are carbon-based life form dreaming
Of a poem that rhymes in some kind of ur formation
That will be understood in every language you are
Dreaming of a poem that is not you dreaming of a
Poem that causes international controversy by skating
Into all of the poems that preceded it you are dreaming
Of a poem that will give you death threats that are
All justified but only by evildoers you are dreaming of a
Poem that will purchase your oil companies and
Your votes at the same time you are dreaming of a
Poem and you are weeping and you are hungry
On international television and as you wipe a tear you
Realize that people in Hungary are critiquing your
Tear and you are dreaming there you are dreaming and
You are not a poem your life is not a poem your life
Is not a line and there is no war on terror anymore no
Longer there is only the Olympics and you staring at
A screen dreaming of a poem dreaming of poem and you
Are not the Olympics and you are not a poem and you
Are not many things there you go you
Are there that which lies in wait,
Dreaming of a poem.