fashioned from
a dollar bill
interrupts
your complicity
in the collective dream
by momentarily
making the fantastic
real.
*
It's all going
to work out, we say—or
it's okay,
or
it's not
that important—
as if kicking
the empty soft pack
of "it" down the road
after flushing the cigarettes
of "is"
down the toilet.
*
In the future,
words like "nonplussed"
mean their opposite,
and belief in the devil
is actively shunned,
while all manner
of heretofore
abstract objects
now exist just
to astound:
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