A sunny Spring morning
I’m walking past
The Foxy Box Laser and Wax Bar
on west 10th avenue
waxing lyrical
thinking of childhood Easters
chocolate eggs and religion
pleasure and guilt
that Catholic Cocktail
and something about the time that’s in it
and that sun streaming down west 10th
takes me back to 1969
moon missions
and the United States in a war that won’t end
the more it changes……..
but the Earth in the new photos from Artemis
looks different
less vibrant, a bit faded
as if from the vantage point
of the rest of the Universe
we are a failed experiment
suffering from a chronic inability to learn.

I start to wax facetious
my brain is thinking of ad slogans
for The Foxy Box Laser and Wax Bar
but it seems like they’ve got it covered
or uncovered,
a guy jogs by, wearing just shorts and jogging shoes
his sweating torso ripples with muscle
headphones on
a jog before work
as for me
I’m at an age
where I think “muscle tone”
is a Hebrew greeting.

And so it goes

waxing facetious
again
the world turns

the astronauts fix the toilet.

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