Ext. Polly's Midnight

A feeling     no evidence    no
manifestation     being left out     snubbed
     it's executive     from the top     someone
up there
doesn't like you

someone up there thinks you're air
and then it rains after months of heat
we hope it reaches the fires
Tom's rain-dance worked          he's a
musician w/the power to avoid deer in the road

The fires, they burn near Kamloops     up
over the other side of the lake         the smoke
executes orders     the police hide
the news from reporters
not wanting people to see
their homes in ashes on TV
before the news reaches them

It's not always this way
Iraqi TV w/ 12 year old girl
head blown off blood and brain
sliding out          it was dinner time
and there were no Mrs. Pac Men to get
this vision out

Polly doesn't like to think anything
but happy thoughts
they are like mental push-ups
keep going     one   two
and you won't have to think about
you     the way the self
makes motion
sweeps under the purple rug     even cares
that it is a purple rug
she cares     as colors are the
highest spiritual vibration          didn't
it say so in the movies?     And
that's where she'd like to live
     purple lips        but this feeling
no evidence          yet          this feeling
that she'll never be
let in.