Asimov's SF, April-May 2009 by Issue 04 # April

Author:Issue 04 # April
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-07-10T14:01:32+00:00

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Poetry: We Ignore Him

by P M F Johnson

with his iPod, the wires curled

around his horns, two cloven hooves

tapping the floor as he wriggles

on the bus seat, head down and jouncing,

proof that commuters can ignore anybody.

He’s long since quit the pipes—

all that ethereal skirling by gods

and mortal seducers—for the ravages

of hip hop, the occasional death metal.

No safer to be around than ever,

despite the cubicle he inhabits

beside yours, with those soft eyes

and their hint of warm danger, and

the restlessness that stirs in us

just looking at him: after all,

there still are rifts throughout

this order, chaos behind the parking lots,

abandon in the woods,

fangs that can be put to good use.

—P M F Johnson

Copyright (c) 2009 P M F Johnson

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