"Carbonization"
Carbonization is cheap,
fizzy novelty.
I only respect it when
it cuts,
And then laughs . . .
It is a Ferris wheel of longing
that is so fragile
we lose track of it,
Always looking for
another believer,
it will pant and beguile
until it can laugh
no more.
May 2021
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Michael Smolens