With all our forgets and plans stand the memories
until life grinds us down till we’re
tiny molecules

hanging out with the dust in the thick
summer night filled with the
memories

we never actually lived through
and it’s in this black night
to blue

thick swirled primordial stew
that I still dream of
the green leaves
anew

–

Puerto Rico may be dying
in a sea of
debt

but let’s not forget they’re
human beings
too

lest we regret the
things we
do

to each
other

again and
again

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This mindgallery poem was posted to the Brooklyn Missed Connections in early 2018 – a few months after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island. Now, their already weak infrastructure is being destroyed again by COVID-19 and lack of direction from the federal government. We do things to each other again and again but I’m starting to feel that no one regrets it any longer.

Key lime pie when the crust is the way it should be and the filling not too sweet
but very tart and well key lime pie in the summertime has always
been one of my favorites

in fact i woke up at 3 in the morning and ate the rest standing
by the fridge and thank god the last bite was
a small piece of
pie

–

And when we awoke the american dream
had passed us by leaving us nothing
just pie in the
sky

Dreamer’s . Dream

 

 

 

Dreamer’s dream of key lime pie on the fourth of July. They joined the party but it passed them by, leaving nothing but pie in the sky.