Into Its Conclusion Poem by Robert Rorabeck

They will wake up and they will have to
Go to school again:
The cars will flash, and the fireworks will
Go off like
Grasshoppers trying to kiss dragonflies-
And the other things I do not know
Will be left for the housewives
To discover
Outside in their backyards, topless in
Their preordained natures,
The alligators watching them like the transmutations
Of bachelors underneath a witchcraft of
Burning sugarcane:
And the highways will rile up and down on
Either side of them,
And their reel will continue blissfully into its
Conclusion.