DRUGS THAT WE TAKE IN DREAMS poem in online poetry collection

DRUGS THAT WE TAKE IN DREAMS poem in selection of poems on various topics and themes, including America, Japan, Malawi and Guantanamo.

This DRUGS THAT WE TAKE IN DREAMS poem is part of the Genghis Lotus Poetry Collection, a selection of poems free to read online.

The collection includes school poems, city poems, nature poems, war poems, cancer poems, death poems, and, additionally, other poems, assorted poems on various topics and themes, this being one of those other poems.

The Genghis Lotus poems are hosted at two locations, genghislotus.com and zenvirus.com/genghis-lotus/. Webmaster for both sites is poet Hugh Cook, born in Britain, educated in New Zealand, and the author of, amongst other works, the fantasy series Chronicles of an Age of Darkness.

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DRUGS THAT WE TAKE IN DREAMS

Drugs that we take in dreams
Do nothing to slow or accelerate the sun.
Girls that we kiss in our fantasies
Bear us no babies.
Dragons we kill without video
Win us no plaudits.
("Show us the head!")
Conceptual helicopters
Can skip air traffic control.
The rehearsed divorce
Still leaves us, for the moment,
Married.
The bomb that fell on Hiroshima,
Plummeting, planned
Retirements for millennia.
I have made plans myself,
Plans for the high window,
For the wheels of the passing train,
But plans per se are not the actuality.
And I ...
My teeth still beg the homage of the toothbrush.
My tax pack is still, annually, in the mail.

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