Numbness is another way
       

Numbness is another way
of turning off the news.

Think how busy cafes were in war,
patrons lifting sweetened cups

of bitter to their lips, the brothels full
of sounds resembling ecstasy.

No, the singer said, there's nothing I regret.
Tonight, I'm putting stoppers in my ears—

I call it falling because I drop
like ice into a glass of sleep.

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from American Samizdat
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