Ersatz Memphis
Your old school only with extensions, of stiff
joints,
Smeared and running down, draining, creaking
gulls, salt grime
sticky, blown dry, of corrosion to that pretender syndrome.
Newness
equals something quintessential like the early eighties -
ersatz Memphis
Of a bad idea bankrupt in poor locations,
dregs. Sacrificing First
Nation hate sanded & mouldering to resentment that
corporal
arrogance aspires only to commissioner syndrome. But linger
Nice skies and fresh air and concrete of
pebbles and small stones
cracking and damp
With salt
Memories
like the Latin
for ‘flying buttress’
Normal distribution
is to American churches as vinyl
over slate and
stone is to Old haunts –
there and gone with scaffolding in beautiful
geometry with only
Spring further on.
