Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Dead End Home on a Dead End Road By Chris Butler


Life goes on,

on and infinitely on,

with or without you

indefinitely,

even if you try

to stay behind

far and wide,

whether or not

the weather is

too soon to bloom

unpollinated spores

on the strategic

trajectory of tragedy,

when the thirst of 

sunshine

burns worse than

moonshine. 






Anti-Chris Butler is an illiterate poet. His last chapbook, DOOMER, is available through Ethel. He is also the co-editor of The Beatnik Cowboy literary journal. 

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