Fence Post

Perched upon a fence post-
apocalyptic war
While the old men I meet tell TALL
TALES about how they had beaten time
management by
ending time itself
and then they say “It’s sad…
The scales have tipped toward Styrofoam
Where the antelope used to roam.”
Perched upon a fence post-
traumatic stress syndrome
While the old men I meet tell TALL
TALES about how they won the war on
world hunger by
ending the world itself

Nicolas Cosmo Kokonas was born and raised in the Chicago area where he currently resides. He is a poet and musician whose goal he says is to one day run out of fear and live off the arts, but he laughs when he says it.