Winking at the Apocalypse

All our Big Bombs

All the Big Men behind our Big Bombs

All our Big Men who bravely give speeches
and tweet out the Answers

All our heroes who drop Daisy Cutters on daisies

All the far-flung baby body parts & patriotic stamps

All our beefed up batting averages

All our World Cup vuvuzela prayers

All our remedies for Nothing

All our pointless Poems

All our unexplained stanza breaks

All our unexamined dance crazes & breakfast cereals 

All our unexcused absences

All our undiscovered origins

All our fracked up countryside

All our unCapitalized forests

All the Jesus Freaks and Wall Street Free Loaders

All our solar energy

All our mass graves & rebate checks

All our protests & counterinsurgencies

All our endangered species

All our One True Gods

All our other random stanza breaks

All our crossword puzzle sonnet mongers & grandmother Internet poets

All our unpaid blues bands

All our unheralded single Mothers

All our trashcan babies & tennis court Buddhas

All our Bigger Bombs

All our Grace & Goodness

All our fallen angels

All our born again garbage piles

All our Super Bowl Hangovers & paperless stock bubbles

All our post-war rubble & Robber Baron Reconstructions

All our normal shits

All our enemies of the hour

All our high speed chases & low budget philosophers

All our lovemaking

All our Touch Down Dances

All our sibling rivalries & fast flowing beer piss

All our Fear

All our letters to Santa

All our lessons from Satan

All our quite meditations
All that purple haze

All our Moon Landings & soap operas

All our incantations & Genocides

All our banners & bunting

All our karma

All our goddamn bosses

All our grown up tantrums & great Fourth Quarter Comebacks

All our Jails & Churches

All our Churches & Jails

All our children & pets

All our hapless victims

All our TVs

All our TV Dinners

All our TV Dinner Dates

All our garage sales & holidays

All our wineries & porn sites

All our pompous funerals & prom nights

All our prom night porn sites & funeral hangovers

All our wealth

All our inner poverty

All our public introspection

All our Facebook friends & long lonely winters

All our springs

All our Marathon Training

All of our beauty

All our hugs

All our Abuse Shelter Blankets

All our radio jingoism

All our wombs & gravestones

All our genuflections & foursquare twilights

All our magazine covers & secret decaying lovers

All our dreams & day jobs 

All our tanks & diaper rashes

All our proud mountains & scattered ashes

All four winds

All good time

All our flirting with the End

All our rhyming & irrational typing

All our motorcycle sunsets

All our vacuum cleaners & time zones

All our Rugged Individualism

All our Universal Joys

All our grand prizes, gift certificates and noisy mufflers

All our sidewalks

All our horny evangelists

All our sidewalkless suburbs

All our Hurricanes

All our innies & outies

All our cell phone addicts & cocaine pioneers

All our music resonating past the planets

All the aliens digging Hendrix

All our necktie factories & televised witch hunts

All our Saints and Saviors

All our ducks in rows

All our child laborers & corporate pimps

All our love

All our will not to write hate

All our failures of will

All the Bombs are back

All our railroad deities & lost crumpled pages

All our motherless trout

All the poets that never made it out of the cubicle

All our missing adjectives

All our applause & Creation Myths

All our caves that were home

All our painters who could not speak so painted caves

All the cartoons we watched as kids

All the souls up in the attic

All our stable genius

All our shiny new stanzas

All our fossilized orgasms

All our crude words

All our censored animals

All our Glory

All our far-flung theories & ordinary actions

All our vain memorials

All our worthwhile endeavors

All our flesh & bone

All our Ideas & Heavens

All our gold crosses and Hells

All our flowers & bloodstains

All our idiot politicians

All good times & toasting

All our whiskey lucidity

All our boasting & marshmallow roasting

All our nursery rhymes

All our toilet paper haikus

All the ways to start a War or end a Poem

All the homes we wrecked along the way

All our sisters & brothers

All our families

All our hot air

All our modest accomplishments & mortgage payments

All our Foolish Pride

All our inevitable triumphs

All our futile efforts to avoid returning

to the single point from whence we came.

Published by

The Vein

March, 2013