TIMEOUT (May 1st, 2014)

Oh it's workers' day

and not a

tank on the streets, smiling

school-children dancing behind

the people's fully-

motorized ICBM launcher.

Everyone, scratch that, nobody

is out of work and

everyone at the mall believes

if there could be Heaven-on

-Earth, taking a twenty minute timeout for a sublime skinny latte

means they they must have found it.

At the border they are painting over

the red, white and black,

using oranges, greens and lemon-

yellows, colours entirely more

friendly and accommodation-appealing.

Oh today too, I am taking a timeout

sleeping throughout the day

my brain set to

dull to quash the chance

of Saturnalia wild, otherwise hopeless

utopia dreaming.