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The news is full of dog whistlers
Have I not heard the news?
Incanting sweet sweet nothings
In waves of royal blue
How soon the ears turn to callus
And the eyes forget to cry
How soon the days all taste alike
Cut round and wafer-dry
The hills are alive with dog whistles
Over gardens turned and tame
Over rooftops brown and sprawled away
Like armadillo scales
How soon the feet forget the dance
How quick the hands the tune
How soon the bread all tastes alike
All sliced from the same stone
I knew a man in a desert place
Beard like the mangrove trees
And my head still rings in the dark
With the things he never said to me
The news is full of dog whistlers
Have I not heard them say?
In my car immune to beating sun
And that icy driven rain
How soon the heart can wither
To a varnished metronome
How quick the signs all look the same
When all roads lead to home
~ Brendan Bonsack 2014
