I'll Fly Away by Rudy Francisco

Author:Rudy Francisco [Francisco, Rudy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-943735-88-4
Publisher: Button Poetry
Published: 2020-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

III

The following words do not currently exist in the English language, but they should:

Parlee

Admonus

Nescium

Nomortice

Brevis

Solosum

Mutanom

Sepheegrum

Perdit

It is the year 2036

and yes,

J-Lo still looks amazing.

Morgan Freeman still looks like …

Morgan Freeman.

Lil Wayne is 53. He still drinks lean

and recently started telling everyone

that he invented hip hop.

It is an election year.

Beyoncé is the Democratic Presidential

Nominee, and her campaign slogan is

“To the left to the left.”

Conversate is officially a word;

skurtskurt is also a word.

On TV, there are commercials asking if you

drank Four Loko in the 2010’s, because

you might qualify for financial compensation.

Popeyes just brought back the chicken sandwich,

Chick-fil-A responds by opening on Sundays

and McDonald’s finally fixed the ice cream machine.

Arby’s went out of business 10 years ago,

and no one has noticed.

Candy corn is illegal,

Milky Ways are also illegal,

but you can still buy guns at Walmart.

We had a mass shooting last week,

and it wasn’t even on the news.

We still write poems about racism.

Most of the police force has been

replaced with drones.

Unarmed black people are still being killed, but

now it’s called a mechanical error.

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