Brendan Walsh -- 'After Looking at the Forbes List of Billionaires'
Channel: Brendan Walsh
Date: 2016-06-28

After Looking at the Forbes List of Billionaires
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Some nights they must lie awake too,
in sleek digital rooms adjusted
for perfect human sleep, sheets
poly-blended to recreate cradle-warmth,
a partner or two beside them, inflating
flawless chests, dreaming nothing;
 
they must consider, too, shedding
numbers like spring cicadas,
moulting excess until some heavy self
is lightened and fresh, mobile
once again—a dried doe, silken tadpole,
or a real person.

Find Brendan Walsh at www.brendanwalshpoetry.com.