Helicopter city
what sense of empowerment is engendered
flying over
places as this
the monuments the river
piles of buildings humble jumble
red taillights
You in the sky with some thought
that what is was meant to be
-laughable to the rest of us - yet
central your relationship to the world here
Perhaps the thought flashed: this must be so I can rule
never realizing
the world does not need you to rule it.
Do you rule?
Choose and the world consorts?
Or do Life Death and swirl of events that
cover all that can and could be
diminish you in this world to
just another red taillight
in the line of the mundane to be soon forgotten
Comment: the choppers were so thick over the Potomac I thought I was in Iraq - maybe I was
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